SIR RONALD ROSS
[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.]
SIR,—May 13th was the anniversary of the late Sir Ronald Ross's birthday. Those of us who have not yet forgotten this great man's services to civilization, and especially to the British Empire, wish for some form of commemoration to take the place of the "national memorial," the Ross Institute and Hospital at Putney, which was closed down for "economy" within a year of Sir Ronald's death. Such a hope may be too ambitious, but local authorities who are concerned with town planning and building might make a resolution to name a line block of modern tenements, a school, or an important new road, after Ross. A similar suggestion was recently made, I understand, to the London County Council, when they were proposing to name a new street after Ann Boleyn, by Dr. Robert Pitfield, an American admirer of the man who discovered the secret of malaria and made possible among other things the building of the Panama Canal.—I am,
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