Notes on the Parasites of Mosquitoes found in India between 1895 and 1899

Ronald Ross

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On reading the excellent paper on the parasites of the Culicidae recently published by Dr Léon Dyé, I was struck by the fact that several of the organisms mentioned by him had been seen and described by me long ago in the course of my original studies on malaria and mosquitoes carried out in India during 1895–1899. My observations were, however, recorded for the most part in Indian medical publications, which are little accessible to European readers, and have been so far forgotten that some of the parasites of mosquitoes seen by me have been recently rediscovered by various observers. It may therefore be of interest—perhaps not alone from the historical point of view—to resuscitate these old records and compare them with more recent and exact work. I may add that attempts were made by me to infect men with two of the organisms which I observed. My writings on the subject were contained in the following publications, which are here numbered for reference:—

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^{page 105 note 1} See the paper by Dyé, Arch. de Parasitologie, 1905, No. I.Google Scholar

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