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CELEBRATION OF A GREAT DISCOVERY.
CONQUEST OF MALARIA.
SIR RONALD ROSS
·ENTERTAINED.
SECRETS OF NEW CUNARDER.
GIANT LINER AND ATLANTIC SPEED RIVALS.
BID FOR RECORD.
Sir Ronald Rose and some of his
As a result of a recent announce colleagues met at lunch at the Ross ment, all sorts of figures are being Institute, Putney Heath, last quoted concerning the Cunard ex- month to celebrate the death of a prees liner to be built by Messrs. mosquito 23 years ago. By dissect John Brown & Company, Limited. ing that body is his laboratory, None can be taken as official, and Sir Ronald made his great disco-some are pure guesswork. very of the malaria germ, and was able, ng the Prince of Wales has said, "to make one-third of the world inhabitable"
The Mosquito Day" lunch was held in the malaria laboratory, and some of the mosquitoes who had played such an important part in
But there is little doubt that sho will be designed for a speed of 30 knots, and geared turbines, high- pressure water tube boilers, and super-heated, steam may also be regarded as practical certainties.
A displacement of 70,000 tons has been assumed from the Cunard Company's statement, "dry dock accommodation at Southampton is the investigations were invited."nt present under consideration by
the Southern Railway." They were under 'microscopes oa the research tables Huge magn fed pictures of mosquitoes looked down rather terrifyingly from the walls, and on every hand were atatistics and diagrams showing the effects of malaria and indicating
ite cure.
At present Southampton's biggest IS THAT 28152 LANE CRAWFORD'S BAKERY DEPT?
dock, & floating one, has a lifting capacity of 80,000 tons."
As regards coast, there is undoubt edly some exaggeration in most of the figures which have appeared in print. A casis of calculation is to be found in the Canadian Pacific liner Empress of Britain, an ex press steamer of 22,500 tons, gross and about 30,000 tons displacement.
Though higher figures have been quoted, it is known that her actual cost is in the neighbourhood of £9,500,000,
Sir Ronald, who is 73, was, of course, the guest of honour, and he looked remarkably well. Lady Ross was beside him, and others, prisent included Sir James Barr, Sir Aldo Castellani, director of tropical
Abroad ships of this class are medicines at the institute, and Sir
more expensive. It is believed that William Simpson, director of tropi-the big new liner which the Com- eal hygiene.
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Silver horseshoes and bunchay of white beather for luck" decorated the walls, and wax faces covered by mosquito net, showed how MR- laria carrying bites could be ward-
exi off.
Sir Ronald, who wore a spring of white heather, talker ever his latest investigations with friends. There was an amusing discussion as to where the best mathematicians came from, and one eminent doctor said that he thought that some of the astutest were to be found in the East End of London."
The Work of Genius. Sir William Simpson said that Sir Ronald's discovery had saved millions of lives, and was bound to save millions more. "Such an achievement is only the work of a genius," said Sir William. "Sir Ronald is a genius, but he does nct confine himself to one diaco- very. He has not been satisfied with that, and he has become. also a poet and a mathematician. But there is one thing he can not do and I want to impress that upon. cannot make money. he Everyone who knows and recognises the magnificent work and benefit to humanity which were due to Sir Ronald Ross may wonder why it is that the British Government" have not as yet awarded him twenty or thirty thousand pounds, as the Government of his time gare Jenner. I hope that will at all events be: remedied."
you,
Sir Aldo Castellani, who replied for Sir Ronald," said that Sir Ronald wished to put on record his appreciation of the work done by all, mem- bers of the medical staff and the secretarial staff of the institute. He wished to mention specially his faithful and capable private se- cretary Miss Maude Lafford and their matron Miss Gray
"Sir Ronald is probably the greatest genius living in our times," said Sir Aldo, who told how 27 years ago when he was unknown and working in a very humble capacity, the discoveries of Sir Ronald fired him with a desire to go to the tropies, but he had not money or influence. By a stroke of fuck he attended a dinner at which Sir Ronald was present, and after. A few minutes coversation with Sir Ronald he was invited to go on an expedition to Uganda to in- sestigate sleeping sickness That was how my career started," he added,
Sir James Barr described how Sir Ronald went to Liverpool, and much to their chargin migrated to London. When the Government treated him very ahabbily and did not anake him the grant to which Eir William Simpson had referred afund was raised which was still growing, and they hoped it would grow a good deal more, Sir. Ronald had made the tropics habit able for the white man. Sir James recalled, amid laughter, how an American admirer of Sir Ronald's poetry cabled to the Prime Minis fer asking him to appoint Bir Ronald Poet Laureate when that post ng vacant:
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Dr. Robert Pitfield, of America, id that he hoped that by this time next year America would have con- tributed overal thousands of pounds to the fund.
It may be that the new Cunarder will cost more than double this figure.
pagnie Generale Transatlantique is to build at St. Nazaire with State assistance may involve an expendi ture of close on £6,000,000.
On the other side of the Atlantic, two 28-knot ships of over 50,000 tons gross, which are to be built with. Government aid for, the United State Lines, are expected to ran into over 30,000,000 dollars apiece (£8,000,000).
The two 27-knot Italian liners, Hex and Conte di Savoia, of 37,000 tons gross, building at Genes and Trieste respectively, will certainly cost nearly £3,000,000 each.
With Britain, France, and the United States all building com petitors, it is not to be expected: that the Nordeutscher Lloyd liners, the Europa and Bremen, will re- tain the Atlantic Blue Riband for many years. The struggle, when it comes, however, will be a hard one.
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