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be introduced — Mexican Orange Maggot — 1898 trip to Mexico — A 

 suspected person who turned out to be very innocent and friendly — 

 Parodi at San Jose de Guaymas — No Orange Maggots in Sonora — 

 International episode at Hildalgo on a later trip — The incident of the 

 Governor of Oaxaca — Dr. Liceaga and his inspection force — Patriotic 

 incident at Cordoba — School histories — Yellow Fever at Laredo in 

 1904 — Yaqui prisoners on way to Yucatan — A, L. Herrera and his 

 troubles during the Revolution — Alfonso Dampf — Late Cooperation 

 with Mexico — Eflforts to pass a Plant Quarantine Law in the United 

 States — Efforts in 1912 to strengthen European inspection services — 

 Passage of the United States law — Individual credit to C. L. Marlatt — 

 International conference at Wageningen — The Plant Quarantine 

 Service — Difficulties of the Service — The Rice Stem-borer as an ex- 

 ample — Present conditions. 



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International congresses — The Congress of Arts and Sciences at 

 St. Louis in 1904 — Simon Newcomb — Henri Poincare — ^The Inter- 

 national Congress of Zoology at Boston in 1907 — Charles Sedgwick 

 Minot and his dinner at the St. Botolph Club — The German pro- 

 fessor at New York — Secretary James Wilson and Ralphael Blanchard 

 at Washington — The International Congress of Agriculture at Vienna 

 in 1907 — Franz Josef — The arguments of the bird lovers — Monsieur 

 de Meline — The International Commission of Agriculture — Its meet- 

 ing in Paris — The Marquis de Vogue — Monsieur de Tisserand — The 

 Lamarck Centenary Fete in Paris in 1908 — Notable men present — 

 The Kiinckel d'Herculais incident — The incident of Dr. von Graff — 

 The Darwin Centenary in England in 1907 — Dr. Arthur Shipley — 

 The Two Hundred and Fiftieth Anniversary of the Royal Society in 

 1912 — Services at Westminster Abbey — The opening meeting — The 

 incident of the German delegation — Banquet at Guild Hall — Speech 

 of the Prime Minister — Speech of Lord Morley — Garden parties at 

 Syon House and Windsor Castle — International Congress of Ento- 

 mology at Oxford in 19 12 — E. B. Poulton — G. B. Grosvenor — The 

 section on applied entomology — Anton Handlirsch — International 

 Congress of Economic Entomologists and Phytopathologists at 

 Wageningen, Holland in 1923 — ^Attitude of the Germans — Discus- 



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