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Sir Herbert Maxwell L. L. D.

Monreith, Wigtownshire.

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55 Willow brae Road, EDINBRÓ'

15th. January 1913

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Noting that you do not know who sent me tue extract from your lecture, I enclose typed copy of it, from your manuscript, whion I cannot send you, as it is pastes into my scrap book.

The handwriting of the manuscript looks like yours. I was invited to hear the leature by a gentleman named Cockburn, a good old sort from Cashmere, whom I met.

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, Vaen the Rudder boom began, I wondered if the Prospectusses would mention the possible loss through sickness,

of 50 out of every 100 coolies employed. Even now, after two years at home, I can get few to listen to me, when I trybɔ communicate the glad news, that the mystery searched for during the last 30) years has been solvear- that I had discovered the

*Fons et Origo" of malaria do, The man in the street knoWS

better, and even the london Chamber of Commerce were asked by Professor Simpson to believe that the cause and the node of spread- ing malarial fever is now definitely known, "No mosquitoes no malaria", be said,

but, to quote yourself in Memories of the months". In the present painfully congested state of knowledge, it amounts almost to a calamity when a frean discovery dispelssɔmo venerable mystery. Or perhaps I shoulu say with Milton "For' the truta never comes into the world but like a bastard, to the ignɔmɔny of him tuật brought her forth,"

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(signed) J. Grant 3mi th

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