THE STORY OF AN ENTOMOLOGIST 



the Royal School of Agriculture at Portici, which immediately 

 adjoined her husband's property. 



Although the United States, for the reasons before mentioned, 

 declined to send delegates to the Madrid Conference, I found 

 myself, just before the date of convocation, in the south of 

 France, in company with Dr. Paul Marchal of Paris, who was 

 to represent the French Department of Agriculture at Madrid. 

 I am a great admirer of Marchal, and greatly enjoy his com- 

 pany. Then, too, the subject of the conference interested me, 

 because some day this noxious little fly may make his way to 

 Southern California. So I went with Marchal to Madrid. 



The conference was very interesting and was attended by 

 delegates from practically every country bordering the Mediter- 

 ranean. My old friend II Conde de Montornes presided, and 

 the discussions were all in the French language. Certain purely 

 scientific sessions were presided over by Dr. Marchal. The only 

 technical delegates at the conference whom I had met before 

 were A. de Seabra of Lisbon and Leandro Navarro of Madrid, 

 but I took the opportunity to visit the splendid Museum of 

 Natural History, and to have a long talk with the veteran 

 Ignacio Bolivar and his son, Candido Bolivar y Peltain and 

 with Ricardo Garcia y Mercet, who had done, and is doing, 

 admirable work with certain groups of parasites. 



During the olive fly discussions, the question of mechanical 

 sprays was introduced, and it was stated that large scale-spraying 

 by great machines would be most difficult in the majority of 

 olive orchards because of the hilly character of the terrain. I 

 was asked to explain how spraying was done in mountainous 

 districts in New England in the work against the Gipsy Moth. 

 Marchal had been over this ground with me in Massachusetts 

 and southern New Hampshire in the summer of 1913. I told 

 them not only about the spraying from great ground machines 



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