Dr. W. E. Haworth

Abstract

DR. WALLACE ELLWOOD HAWORTH, who, as a result of a collision between the motor cycle he was riding and a motor car, sustained fatal injuries at Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia, and died on March 13, furnished an example of a man who, possessing naturally a scientific bent, was able to devote himself wholly to scientific pursuits only somewhat late in life. He was sixty years of age at the time of his death and held the post of a Milner Research Fellow in entomology of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, having, in accordance with the arrangement made between the School and the Government of Southern Rhodesia, been sent out to work in collaboration with Dr. G. R. Ross, who is engaged upon an inquiry into the etiology of blackwater fever. Dr. Haworth was responsible for the collection and identification of mosquitoes, and was gathering data showing how the distribution of anophelines coincided with the presence of cases of blackwater.