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us with various bulletins and publications of the Uni- 

 versity and State Board of Health, bearing on the 

 subject of parasitic diseases. In this same communi- 

 cation Professor Herms set the date of January 5th 

 to meet us at Penryn to arrange details of the cam- 

 paign. These were promptly made and Professor 

 Herms addressed mass meetings at Loomis, Penryn, 

 Newcastle, and Auburn during January and February, 

 1910, on malaria and its control. 



At each of these meetings committees were appointed 

 to meet at Penryn, as a joint executive committee, to 

 make definite arrangements for the prosecution of a 

 crusade to control malaria by the extermination of 

 the malaria mosquito. On February 12, 1910, this 

 joint committee met at Penryn and organized by 

 election of the following officers : H. E. Butler, Chair- 

 man ; W. E. Eckles, Secretary ; James R. Huifaker, 

 Treasurer. 



Following is a list of those present at this initial 

 meeting : Professor W. B. Herms of the University 

 of California, Dr. G. H. Fay, Health Officer of Placer 

 County, James H. Breslin, Health Officer of Auburn, 

 H. E. Butler, J. Huffaker, H. A. Snelling, George H. 

 Fisher of Penryn, Robert Jones, Louis Ames, and P. F. 

 Lynn of Newcastle. The Loomis Committee was un- 

 avoidably absent. 



At this meeting telegrams and letters were read 

 from Professor E. J. Wickson, Dean of the College of 

 Agriculture, University of California, Dr. W. F. Snow, 



