The Ronald Ross gate of commemoration.

Date:
[1927]
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Credit: The Ronald Ross gate of commemoration. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Hz/wCT* Reprinted from The Indian Medical Gazette, Vol. LX II. (No. 3, March, 1927.) The Ronald Ross Gate of Commemoration. An exceedingly interesting ceremony took place in Calcutta on Friday, January 7th, 1927, when His Excel- lency Ford Lytton, Governor of Bengal, unveiled a com¬ memorative gate in honour of Sir Ronald Ross near his old laboratory in the Presidency General Hospital. The memorial is in the form of a gateway bearing a bronze medallion 'of Sir Ronald in the centre above the arch; whilst on the left is an inscription to the effect that in the small laboratory 70 yards to the South-East of the gateway Sir Ronald Ross made his ever-memorable discovery of the mosquito transmission of malaria, and to the right of the medallion is a quotation from a poem which he wrote when he first found that the malarial parasite underwent development in a mosquito. We give below a photograph of the memorial; also a photograph of the medallion, for which Sir Ronald gave special sittings in London last year. There was a large gather¬ ing of the leading citizens of Calcutta. In asking His Excellency to unveil the memorial, Liem Colonel J. W. D. Megaw, c.i.E., v.h.s., i.m.s., spoke as follows:— Your Excellencies, ladies and gentlemen, It is astonishing that so few of the inhabitants o* Calcutta know of the existence of the little laboratory a few yards from this spot in which Sir Ronald Ross made one of the greatest discoveries in the history of the world. In the hot weather months of 1898 Surgeon Major Ronald Ross, i.m.s:, found out how malaria is conveyed by the mosquito. hi