THE STORY OF AN ENTOMOLOGIST 



lucern. Capital had come down from die north, and many 

 barns and other agricultural buildings had been erected. We 

 saw groups of people coming back from early Mass. The women 

 were rosy-cheeked and vigorous, and the bright-eyed, active 

 children clustered around Celli and begged for a story. Celli, 

 by the way, was an obvious favorite with all of the peasants. They 

 seemed to realize that he was largely the author of the vastly 

 improved conditions. Dr. Vail photographed him talking to a 

 group of the children, and from this photograph I made 

 a lantern slide that I have often used in public lectures since 

 that day. 



I wish that I had made notes of many of the interesting things 

 that Celli said. However the impression of his delightful per- 

 sonality has remained with me ever since. Knowing of Ross's 

 very decided opinion concerning the Italian School and of his 

 more vigorous denunciation of their methods, I asked Celli 

 rather jocularly about "our mutual friend Ross," He smiled 

 amiably and said that he and Ross were very good friends, and 

 that he had contributed a chapter on the malarial situation in 

 Italy for Ross's big book on malaria that had just been or was 

 about to be published in London. I told him that I also had con- 

 tributed a chapter to that work, and that in it I had described 

 the anti-malarial measures begun in the United States. 



We walked until one o'clock, interviewing peasants, taking 

 photographs, and examining the few irrigating ditches, where 

 I had no difficulty in finding active anopheles larvae. Thus we 

 crossed from the railway over a good stretch of land to a 

 tramway to the east and then to a wayside inn where we had 

 a very excellent luncheon. And then we found that the tramcars 

 did not run on Sunday. We were ten or twelve miles from 

 Rome, and the day was hot. Celli proved himself a man of 

 resource and asked the proprietor of the little inn about a 



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