Appendix C. 



National Organization, Etc. 



Pursuant to the Resolutions of the Convention of December ]6, 1903, 

 Mr. Robert W. de Forest, Chairman, appointed the following-named ten 

 persons as a Provisional Committee to consider the question of a 

 National Organization and of publishing the Proceedings of the Conven- 

 tion : (See p. 39) 



PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE. 



William J. Matheson William H. Baldwin, Jr. 



John Claflin Charles W. Wetmore 



Walter C. Kerr George C. Rand 



Paul D. Cravath Frederick C. Beach 



Spencer Miller Henry Clay Weeks 



At the first meeting of the Committee, held January 28, 1904, 

 William J. Matheson was elected Chairman; 

 Walter C. Kerr, Vice-Chairman ; 



Henry Clay Weeks, Secretary, Bayside, L. I.; New York City ; 

 Frederick C. Beach, Treasurer (Editor "Scientific American," 

 New York.) 



An Executive Committee of five, besides the Chairman, ex officio, 

 was appointed, as follows: Messrs. Kerr, Cravath, Baldwin, Miller and 

 Weeks. 



It was unanimously resolved, after due consideration, that a central 

 organization be formed, and the name adopted by the committee was the 



NATIONAL MOSQUITO EXTERMINATION SOCIETY. 



The purposes of the Society were stated generally as education, co- 

 operation, legislation, and the interchange of ideas through conventions 

 and otherwise. 



It was decided to establish an Advisory Board, composed largely of 

 those selected as Vice-Presidents of the Convention, with the addition of 

 several names. The following were elected as an 



ADVISORY BOARD. 



Robert W. de Forest, New York. 



Judge Howard J. Curtis, Connecticut. 



Dr. Alvah H. Doty, Port of New York. 



Prof. Nath. S. Shaler, Massachusetts. 



General George W. Sternberg, U. S. A. 



Surgeon-General Walter Wyman, District of Columbia. 



Hon. J. Wilson, Secretary Agriculture, United .States. 



U. S. .Senator John Kean, New Jersey. 



Prof. Milton Whitney, District of Columbia. 



Col. W. C. Gorgas, Assistant Surgeon General, U. .S. A. 



Louis C. Tiffany, New York. 



Otto H. Kahn, New York and New Jersey. 



G. Waldo Smith, New York. 



Colgate Hoyt, New York and Ohio. 



Prof. Franklin W. Hooper, New York. 



