British doctor, Nobel laureate, writer, and artist (1857–1932)

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Sir Ronald Ross, C.S. Sherrington, and R.W. Boyce in a laboratory at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine. Gouache by W.T. Maud, 1899.

Secunderabad, India: the room in which Ronald Ross attributed the transmission of the malaria parasite to the anopheles mosquito. Photograph by Raja Deen Dayal & Sons, 19--.

Sir Ronald Ross. Photograph by Major R. Knowles (?), 1927, after a medallion.

Sir Ronald Ross. Photograph by Grove, Son & Boulton after Janko Bragovitch, 1926.

An Italian bandit offering a French gentleman the piebald one of three 'hottentot' (steatopygous) women; representing Louis Sambon and Raphael Blanchard at an international medical congress. Halftone after M.S. Orr, 1913.

The story of Sir Ronald Ross and his fight against malaria / by E.F. Dodd.

A catalogue of the Ross Archives / compiled by Mary E. Gibson.

Sir Ronald Ross, K.C.B., K.C.M.G., F.R.S., N.L. : honors and awards.

Notes on the preservation of personal health in warm climates / [rev. by G. Macdonald].

Memoirs : with a full account of the great malaria problem and its solution / by Ronald Ross.

Observations on malaria / by medical officers of the army and others ; edited by Sir Ronald Ross.

The prevention of malaria / by Ronald Ross ; with contributions by L.O. Howard [and others].

Malarial fever : its cause, prevention and treatment containing full details for the use of travellers, sportsmen, soldiers, and residents in malarious places / by Ronald Ross.

The prevention of malaria.

Psychologies / by Ronald Ross.

Fables / by Ronald Ross.

Malaria : a neglected factor in the history of Greece and Rome / by W.H.S. Jones ; with an introduction by Sir R. Ross ; a concluding chapter by G.G. Ellett.

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The prevention of malaria.

Psychologies / by Ronald Ross.

Fables / by Ronald Ross.

Malaria : a neglected factor in the history of Greece and Rome / by W.H.S. Jones ; with an introduction by Sir R. Ross ; a concluding chapter by G.G. Ellett.

Malarial fever : its cause, prevention and treatment containing full details for the use of travellers, sportsmen, soldiers, and residents in malarious places / by Ronald Ross.