CONTENTS 



catalogue of the recorded host-relations — The Australian Ladybird 

 and its success in California — Later successes in Hawaii, Italy, Fiji 

 and elsewhere — Work done in Washington — Cooperation with other 

 countries — Search for European insect enemies of the Gipsy Moth and 

 the Brown-tail Moth— Work in France, Italy, Austria, Hungary, Ger- 

 many and Russia — Fritz Wagner — Josef Jablonowski — Rene Oburthiir 

 —Andre Vuillet— Mistral— J. Henri Fabre— Theophile Gautier— 

 Marie Ruhl — Kiew — Waldemar Pospelow — Sebastopol and Simferopol 

 — Sigismond Mokrzecki— Bachtisserai — Mayor Maximoff's estate at 

 Balaklava— The Crimean War Museum— The Palace of the Khan of 

 the Crimea at Bachtisserai— The Coming of the World War— Mokr- 

 zecki again — Later work on Gipsy Moth parasites in Europe — So- 

 called American Blight — Aphelinus mali, its introduction into Europe 

 and throughout the world — The general subject — Albert Koebele — 

 W. F. Fiske — Frederick Muir — Fiske again. 



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My very early observations on mosquitoes and the use of kerosene — 

 Malaria in Washington, open windows at night, and "Miasma" — The 

 malarial "flats" at Ithaca — Later use of kerosene in the Catskills and 

 publication in 1892 — Bulletin on household insects in 1896 and on 

 mosquitoes in 1898 — First life history of Anopheles worked out — 

 Consultations with Reed, Carroll and Lazear — Results of their work 

 — A book on mosquitoes in 1901 — The beginning of the four-volume 

 Carnegie monograph — The much later revision of the taxonomic por- 

 tion in one volume by Dyar — How Dyar became interested in mos- 

 quitoes — Walter Reed's chagrin at statements in the 1901 mosquito 

 book — Later articles and lectures — The Panama Canal and interview 

 with President Roosevelt — Gorgas and Le Prince at my office — An 

 extraordinary earlier coincidence in Canada — An anecdote of General 

 Gorgas — An anecdote of Dr. W. S. Thayer — Sir Ronald Ross and his 

 1905 visit to America — The Yellow Fever Mosquito at the St. Louis 

 World's Fair — Sir Rubert Boyce and Lord Mountmorris — Visit to 

 New Orleans at the close of the epidemic of 1905 — A Texas Yellow 

 Fever story — The Roman Campagna and Malaria — Angelo Celli and 

 a trip with him on the Campagna — Our "triumphal return" to Rome 

 — First call on Grassi — His Germanisms — Grassi after the War — 



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