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Leonard Jan Bruce-Chwatt

Posted May 25, 2012 12:07 pm by Francine Millard | Permalink

The papers of malariologist Leonard Jan Bruce-Chwatt (1907-1989) are now available from the Wellcome Library.
“For an insight into global anti-malaria endeavours from the advent of effective insecticides in the 1940s through the large-scale eradication campaigns of the 1950s and 1960s, and the disillusionment of the 1970s and 1980s, one could do worse than begin with an examination of the papers of Bruce-Chwatt himself, now available for consultation in the Wellcome Library.” (quoted from the Wellcome Library blog. For more information see the blog at: http://wellcomelibrary.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/let-us-spray-papers-of-leonard-jan.html