FIGHTING THE INSECTS 



understandings and their aid, although, it must be admitted, 

 in a small way, toward the world peace that must come 

 eventually. 



In addition to these international affairs away from home, 

 I have attended a number o£ such functions held in Washington, 

 and in a very few of them have taken a small part. For example, 

 at a Pan-American Health Congress held in one of the early 

 years of the present century, I spoke on the geographic distri- 

 bution of the Yellow Fever Mosquito. It was at this congress 

 that I first met Dr. Carlos Finley of Cuba, who was accom- 

 panied by Dr. Juan Guiteras, and then also for the first time 

 I met Dr. Eduardo Liceaga of Mexico. All these men have 

 been mentioned in previous pages. I think that this meeting 

 must have been in 1903. It was at this Congress that a reception 

 was held by President Roosevelt that I shall mention in another 

 chapter. 



Later there was another Pan-American Congress, this time 

 a scientific one, and at this I addressed one of the sections on 

 the necessity for cooperation among the American nations in 

 the warfare against insect pests. 



In 1912, while I was returning from Europe, where I had 

 attended the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the found- 

 ing of the Royal Society at London, and the Second International 

 Congress of Entomology at Oxford, I met in the smoking- 

 room of the steamer. Dr. Zort, late Surgeon-General of the 

 Baltic fleet of the Russian navy, who was on his way to attend 

 an international congress of hygiene and demography at Wash- 

 ington. It will be remembered that the ill-fated Baltic fleet 

 started from Russia during the Russo-Japanese War, and after 

 supposedly firing on the British fishing vessels in the North 

 Sea, made its way in time to Chinese waters, and there was 



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