Participants at the Walter Reed Commemoration Meeting onstage at the Agricultural Research Station in Beltsville, Maryland Participants at the Walter Reed Commemoration Meeting onstage at the Agricultural Research Station in Beltsville, Maryland

Publication: Produced: 12 May 1948 Language(s): No linguistic content Format: Still image Subject(s): Yellow Fever Genre(s): Archival Materials Photographic prints Abstract: Sawyer joined other eminent yellow fever experts at the Walter Reed Commemoration Meeting at the Agricultural Research Station in Beltsville, Maryland to honor Reed, whose experiments in 1900-1901 proved that yellow fever was transmitted to humans by mosquitoes. From left to right: General M. W. Ireland, Brigadier General Jefferson R. Kean, Brigadier General Albert A. Truby, Major General Raymond W. Bliss, Dr. Fred L. Soper, Dr. Philip S. Hench, Mr. J. L. Hanberry (a surviving volunteer in Reed's experiments), and Major General Walter L. Reed (son of Dr. Walter Reed). Copyright: This item may be under copyright protection; contact the copyright owner for permission before re-use. Extent: 1 pages NLM Unique ID: 101584931X130 (See in Profiles in Science) Profiles in Science ID: LWBBJF Permanent Link: http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101584931X130 Archival Collection: The Wilbur A. Sawyer Papers (Profiles in Science)