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slaughter houses. Where the road crosses the stream is only 

 a short distance from where the stream leaves the mountain 

 gulch. This ravine was explored for a distance back in the 

 mountains of more than a mile. It is forest-shaded, deep, 

 dark and noisy with waterfalls, apparently the last place in the 

 world to expect sun-loving insects likedragonflies. February 

 26th, it rained nearly all day but during the three days spent 

 in the ravine over three hundred dragonflies were taken. 



March i, 1905. Enroute San Pedro to Puerto Cortez. 



March 2, 1905. Collected for three or four hours about the 

 wharf at Puerto Cortez, and about two o'clock in the afternoon 

 boarded the steamship Anselm bound for New Orleans. 



The week February 2ist to February 28th was spent at 

 Puerto Barrios by Mr. Beam and a valuable lot of dragonflies 

 were collected there by him, though the weather was very 

 unfavorable, rain falling every day, and the sky being almost 

 continually obscured by clouds. 



To THE EDITORS OF ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS : 



DEAR SIRS : In the October number of the NEWS you 

 reprint a circular of the National Mosquito Extermination 

 Society, and among the names in the Advisory Board of Ento- 

 mologists my own appears. Permit me to say that my name 

 is used not only without my permission but in spite of a very 

 decided protest on my part, made to the Secretary and appar- 

 ent mouth-piece of the Society. Lest it seem strange that one 

 so strongly identified with the anti-mosquito campaign as myself 

 should decline to be concerned with a body whose expressed 

 aims are in every respect laudable, I will ask permission to 

 explain that while the professions of the Society are sound its 

 actions through its Secretary are underhanded, dishonest and 

 not in accord with recent developments as to practice. 



For three years New Jersey had, through the writer, con- 

 ducted a mosquito survey of the State and in the early days of 

 1905 had published an elaborate report on the results, following 

 a preliminary report and bulletin, all of which were sent to 

 Henry Clay Weeks, Secretary, etc. Yet at the 1905 session of 

 the New Jersey Legislature, said Henry Clay Weeks, purporting 



