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[Sleeping Sickness Commission members, Congo 1903-1904], 1903 - 1904

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A/246
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102 x 76 mm. A view showing the four members of the Congo Sleeping Sickness Commission standing in front of a cage covered in gauze, presumably built to store captured tsetse flies. The figures are, from left to right, Dr John Lancelot Todd (1876-1949), Dr Inge Heiberg, representing the Congo Government on the Commission, Cuthbert Christy and Dr Joseph Everett Dutton (1874-1905). Photographer unknown.

Dates: 1903 - 1904
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