Alphonse Laveran, French physician Size:Standard: 6 x 4in chiefly in the form of

chiefly in the form of attacks by Mr Robert Lowe who objected strongly to placing more power in the hands of the lower classes

This painting forms plate 12 of 'The Thanatophidia of India: being a description of the venomous snakes of the Indian peninsula

The oldest railway cantilever bridge in the world

Battle Abbey

Alphonse Laveran, French physician Size:Standard: 6 x 4in chiefly in the form ofAlphonse Laveran, French physician, 1917. In 1880 Laveran (1845 1922) made the discovery that malaria were caused by protozoa. For this, and his later work on sleeping sickness, he won the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1907. A photograph from Album de Photographies, Dans L'Intimite de Personnages Illustres, 1850 1950, Editions MD, 22 Rue de L'Arcade, Paris 8, 1850 1950.