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Show NOTED SCIENTISTS TO GET MEDALS FOR GREAT WORK LIVERPOOL, Sept. 1 1. Tho Man' Kingidcy medal, instituted by tho Liverpool Liv-erpool school for the study of tropical diseases to commemorate' Miss Man' Ivingsloy. tho African traveler, has boon awarded, among othors, to Dr. Charles Finluy. chief sanitarv officer of Cubn. who originated tho theory that yellow fever is carried by mosquitoes; mos-quitoes; to Col. Y. C. Gorgas, U. S. A., who as chief sauitarv inspector of Havana Ha-vana gnvo practical' effect iu 1002 to the discovery of Dr. Finlay, and the American commission in "connection with the investigation of tl causes of yellow fever and succeeded in banishing ban-ishing the disease from Havana. aul to Dr. Theobald Smith of Harvard, who discovered a uow kind of blood parasite in his investigations of the so-cnllcd Texas cattle fover. Colonel Gorgas is now chief sanitary officer of the Panama Pana-ma canal zone. |