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55 Willow Brae Road, EDINBRO'
15th. January 1913
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II. 190
Sir Herbert Maxwell L. L. D.
Monreith, Wigtownshire.
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Your favor of 16th. December last duly reached me. acknowledgement of mine dated 12th. of same month.
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Noting that you do not know who sent me the extract from your lecture, I enclose typed copy of it, from your manuscript, which I cannot send you, as it is pasted into my scrap book, The handwriting of the manuscript looks like yours. was invited to hear the lecture by a gentleman named Gockburn, a good old sort from Qashmere, whom I met.
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Your son's experience of the jungle of Johore is of great interest to me , being the facts of the case, as the lawyers would say. When the Rubber boom Legan, I wondered if the Prospectussee would mention the possible loas through sickness, of 50 out of every 100 coolies employed. Even now, after two years at home, I can get few to listen te më, when I tryte communicate the glad news, that the mystery searched for during the last 300 years has been solved;- that I had discovered the
The man in the street knows "Fons et Origo" of malaria &o.
Letter, and even the london Chamber of Commerce were asked by Professor Simpson to believe that the cause and the mode of spread-
"No mosquitoes no ing malarial fever is now definitely known. malaria”, he said.
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But, to quote yourself in Memories of the months","
present painfully congested state of knowledge, it amounts almost to a calamity when a fresh discovery dispelssone venerable mystery. Or perhaps I should say with Milton "For the truth never comes into the world but like a bastard, to the ignomony of him that brought her forth."
Iam, sir,
your obedient servant
(signed) J. Grant Smith