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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    I have sometimes thought that the obstacles which were placed in his path may have been blessing's in disguise. There are a few men of genius like Sir Ronald Ross and Sir Leonard Rogers, to whom obstacles are but stepping stones by which they climb to still greater heights of achievement. If Sir Ronald had lived in times like the present under the benevolent rule of Your Excellency, he would have had no cause to complain of lack of encouragement or recognition ; but would he have accomplished so much if he had been the pampered protege instead of the grim and misunderstood worker, who had to fight for every opportunity to carry on his research? Certainly he could hardly- have done more. He not only discovered how malaria is conveyed, he showed how the disease can be controlled. He himself at first was the only one who had the clearness of vision to see the vast results which would follow from his work. He was sadly mistaken The Ronald Ro ss Gate of Commemoration. when he imagined that the world would at once perceive the value of the great gift which he had placed at its disposal. The men of science might have been expected to realise the great possibilities of his discovery, but even they were unable to make the forward intellectual stride which was needed if they were to form a true estimate of its value. Loss was years ahead of his times : in those days the suggestion that disease could be controlled by suppressing