Prof. S. K. Allison
1966; Nature Portfolio; Volume: 209; Issue: 5025 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1038/209758a0
ISSN1476-4687
Autores Resumoresistance acquired by trypanosomes resulting from underdosing with 'Antrycide'.In Kenya ho started an insecticidal tsetse eradication scheme in the Nyando rivor basin near Lake Victoria, in collaboration with the Tropical Pesticide Research Institute.This project was to have far-reaching effects on the stooping sickness problem in that cow1try, for it was the first successful large-scale residual insecticidal project undertaken against Glossina in East Africa.•when he went to Nigeria ho immediately recognized the urgent necessity of 'Nigerianizing' his department and began at once to do so.Again, with his characteristic foresight and drive, he lost no time in forming a Veterinary Tsetse and Trypanosom;asis Unit, staffing it with the best men he could find, and sent an officer to Kenya to examine the methods in use there.The next step was the Komadugu Ghana scheme, the biggest, boldest, most successful and cheapest residual insecticidal spraying operation ever undertaken against the tsetse flies Glossina morsitans sitbmorsitans Newstead and G. tachinoides \Vestwood in the Sudan zone of Northern Nigeria.This work was followed up by even larger schemes and to-day the Northern Nigerian Veterinary Tsetse and Trypanosomiasis Unit ranks among the best and most up-to-date organizations of its kind in Africa.In recognition of his outstanding services he was awarded the C.B.E. by Her Majesty the Queen.Geoff Wilson was a man of many parts, and two years after his appointment as professor at Utrecht he gave an inaugural address entitled "The Problems of Trypanosomiasis Control in Cattle in Africa", ending up by speaking for 10 minutes in the Dutch language.But he had lost his heart to Northern Nigeria, and through his influence the 'Zaria Project' involving a part of the Veterinary Faculty of the new Ahmadu Bello University, supported by Dutch a;d, came into being.Apart from his numerous scientific interests and achievements, Geoff was an accomplished sportsman.As a boy he played rugby for the Ulster Schools side and later won his boxing blue at Edinburgh~he was Scottish Universities Welterweight Champion for 1933-34.BesidP>s his wife, Maureen, he loaves behind two sons and a daughter.His eldest son is a veterinarian following in his father's footsteps, for he has recently taken up a post with the East African Trypanosomiasis Research Organization at Tororo in Uganda.Geoff was Irish to the finger-tips~kind, generous and considerate to his friends and a thorn in the side of his enemies--he will be sorely missed.
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