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THE Darling Medal and Prize was founded by the Health Section of the League of Nations in memory of that great malariologist, Dr. S. T. Darling, who met his death as the result of a motor accident in the Lebanon Mountains outside Beirut when carrying out malaria inspection work for the League. The choice of Lieut.-CoL S. P. James as the first recipient of this award is a most appropriate one, for malaria and the problems associated with it have occupied the foremost place in his mind since he first joined the Indian Medical Service in 1896. In India he carried out important pioneer work on the anopheles mosquitoes and their classification, and laid the foundations of the subsequent malaria work which has been accomplished in that country. He pursued other lines of research, and, independently of Low but a little later, was able to demonstrate that the embryos of Filaria bancrofti in their development in the mosquito pass ultimately into the proboscis of the insect, so that there is every probability that infection occurs when the mosquito feed. On his retirement from the Indian Medical Service in 1918, after war service in Mesopotamia, James joined the Local Government Board, now the Ministry of Health, as adviser in tropical diseases. There he was instrumental in organising and developing the malaria treatment of general paralysis in mental hospitals and asylums.
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Lieut.-CoL. S. P. James, F.R.S. Nature 133, 787 (1934). https://doi.org/10.1038/133787b0
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