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PRESENTATIONS of the Mary Kingsley Medal to five recipients were made on November 23 at a reception at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine by its chairman, Viscount Leverhulme. This medal, struck in commemoration of the late Miss Mary Kingsley, niece of Charles Kingsley, distinguished for her work in promoting the welfare of the natives of West Africa, is awarded in recognition of services in the cause of fighting and preventing disease in the tropics. After the chairman had welcomed the guests, Prof. Warrington Yorke introduced the recipients of the medals, briefly outlining the grounds for the awards. They were: Lady Danson, honorary recipient, widow of the late Sir Francis Danson, who was Chairman of the Liverpool School over a lengthy period, and was largely responsible for the establishment of the School's research laboratory at Freetown, West Africa, and herself undertaking the duties of chairman during her husband's absences ; Dr. Marshall A. Barber, with a long and distinguished association with the International Health Division of the Rockefeller Foundation, and recognized for his researches on malaria and for his work on the hookworm, and inventor of the 'micromanipulator' Prof. Emile Brumpt, of the University of Paris, distinguished for his researches on tropical parasitology; Prof. W. Scott Patton, emeritus professor of entomology in the School, formerly in the Indian Medical Service and director of the King Institute, Madras, well known for his researches on kala-azar and oriental sore, and finally Werner Schuleman, professor of pharmacology, University of Bonn, the discoverer of the anti-malarial drug, plasmoquine, which gave a great impetus to chemotherapy.
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Awards of the Mary Kingsley Medal. Nature 142, 988 (1938). https://doi.org/10.1038/142988b0
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