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IN NATURE for June 3, p. 416, Prof. D'Arcy Thompson refers to me and to my “fellow-workers” who helped me to bring our “hopes to fruition” in connection with the old malaria-mosquito business. My own memories remind me of seven years' almost continuous solitary labour, during which time my numerous “fellow-workers” had many opportunities, as good as mine or better, for doing the same work, but, oddly enough, did not use them; and it was not until I had solved the problem that they arrived on the scene in a body, fully armed with paper, pens, and cameras, and resolved “to join the victory group” at any cost. Prof. Thompson puts one of these gentlemen in the place of honour next to Pasteur—who, by the way, had little to do with the development of animal parasitology. The true history of the subject is given in my “Prevention of Malaria” (Murray), and still more trenchantly in Robert Koch's letter to me, dated Februarv 10, 1901, and published in Science Progress for April, 1917.
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ROSS, R. Fellow-Workers. Nature 105, 455 (1920). https://doi.org/10.1038/105455c0
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