A note on the early history of the Ross Institute.

are preserved in the Ross Archives at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), and others in the Seamen's Hospital Society archive. One letter not mentioned in Cook's paper was written by Lockwood Stevens many years later, to his former secretary, Miss Ethne Roberts, who had joined him at the Ross Institute in 1926. She had transferred with him, and it, to the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in 1934, when after the deaths of both Ross and Sir William Simpson the Ross Institute became part of the School, and eventually its Department of Tropical Hygiene.2 It is an extraordinary letter, casting light on the early difficulties of the fledgling Institute and its organization and administration,