The Official Refutation of Dr. Robert Koch’s 
Theory of Cholera and Commas. 
Tue following Memorandum has been drawn up by a Com- 
mittee convened by the Secretary of State for India, for the 
purpose of taking into consideration a Report by Drs. E. 
Klein and Heneage Gibbes, entitled “An Inquiry into the 
Etiology of Asiatic Cholera.” The members of this Committee 
were—Dr. William Aitken, F.R.S., Professor of Pathology, 
Army Medical School; Dr. J. Burdon-Sanderson, LL.D., 
F.R.S., Waynflete Professor of Physiology, Oxford; Dr. 
Norman Chevers, C.I.E., Deputy-Surgeon General, late Prin- 
cipal and Professor of Medicine, Medical College, Calcutta ; 
Dr. F. de Chaumont, F.R.S., Professor of Hygiene, Army 
Medical School; Sir Joseph Fayrer, K.C.S.I., LL.D., F.RS., 
Surgeon-General, Honorary Physician to Her Majesty the 
Queen and to His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, 
Physician to the Council of India; Sir William W. Gull, 
D.C.L., LL.D., F.R.S., Physician Extraordinary to Her 
Majesty the Queen, Physician in Ordinary to His Royal 
Highness the Prince of Wales; Sir W. Guyer Hunter, K.C.M.G., 
Surgeon-General, Honorary Surgeon to Her Majesty the 
Queen, late Principal and Professor of Medicine, Medical 
College, Bombay ; Sir William Jenner (President), K.C.B., 
D.C.L., LL.D., F.R.S., Physician in Ordinary to Her Majesty 
the Queen and to His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, 
President of the Royal College of Physicians; Dr. Timothy 
Richards Lewis, Surgeon-Major, Assistant-Professor of Patho- 
logy, Army Medical School; Dr. John Macpherson, Inspector- 
General of Hospitals (retired); Dr. Jeffery A. Marston, 
Deputy Surgeon-General, Head of Sanitary Branch, Army 
Medical Department; Sir William R. E. Smart, K.C.B., 
