THE STORY OF AN ENTOMOLOGIST 



with him Dr. Jesse W. Lazaer and later Dr. James Carroll, 

 who were associated with him in the famous Yellow Fever 

 Commission. Dr. Aristides Agramonte, a native Cuban, was 

 also a member. The work of the Reed Commission is well 

 known. During all their investigations. Reed constantly wrote 

 to me, not only on questions relating to the different species of 

 mosquitoes, but also to tell me of the progress of their work. 



No end of fame has come to the Walter Reed Commission, 

 and the results of its work have done much to revolutionize 

 conditions in the Southern United States, Central and South 

 America and Africa. They have really opened up vast regions 

 for safe settlement by the white race. But since those days the 

 statement has been made publicly that Reed himself viewed his 

 results more from a scholastic or scientific point of view than 

 from the practical. This is distinctly not true, since in his corre- 

 spondence with me, after he considered that his demonstration 

 of the carriage of Yellow Fever by the mosquito was perfect, 

 Reed dilated on what it would mean to the world, and was 

 kind enough to say nice things about the anti-mosquito measures 

 that I had recommended. 



In 1901 I wrote a book entitled "Mosquitoes, How They Live, 

 How They Are Classified, and How They May Be Destroyed." ^ 

 Its publication in the summer of that year, following as it did 

 the announcement of the results gained by Ross and by the 

 Reed Commission, was most fortunate, for it was what is called 

 the "psychological moment." The Surgeon-General of the U. S. 

 Army, George E. Sternberg, saw that many copies were placed 

 in the hands of the members of the Army Medical Corps, 

 especially those stationed in tropical or sub-tropical regions. Its 

 recommendations formed the basis of the clean-up of Havana, 

 and for the early measures undertaken in the Panama Canal 



^ McClure, Phillips & Co., New York. 



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