268 THE MOSQUITOES OF NEW JERSEY 



The following gentlemen composed the original Conference Com- 

 mittee on Mosquito Extermination : 



New Brunswick, Dr. John B. Smith 



Orange, Herbert Richards ; William Schleuer 



Harrison, John Malone ; John J. Scanlon 



Summit, T, J. Scott 



Springfield, J. L. Denman ; Dr. Stiles 



Bloomfield, Seymour P. Gilbert 



Newark, Dr. F. W. Becker ; D. D. Chandler 



Arlington, John B. Thompson 



South Orange, Spencer Miller, C.E. 



Irvington, J. K. Clickenger; Hugh Winkler 



Montclair, Horatio F. Parker 



East Orange, E. M. Brewster ; Dr. T. N. Gray 



Belleville, Dr. John F. Condon 



Vailsburg, Dr. P. R. Davenport 



West Orange, Mr. Grady 



Glen Ridge, John A. Brown; John B. Smith 



Plainfield, L. R. Thurlow 



Kearny, John B. Thompson 



Elizabeth, Louis J. Richards 



On October 8, 1905, Dr. T. N. Gray took the presidency, succeeding 

 Dr. Becker. 



In 1910, the name of the association was changed to the North Jersey 

 Mosquito Extermination League. Dr. N. Elliot was secretary, but his 

 minutes have been lost. He resigned on May 20, 1912, Louis J. Richards 

 taking his place. 



The North-Shore Improvement Association of Long Island, with 

 offices at 49 Wall Street, New York City, published on October 1, 1902, 

 an account of anti-mosquito work done in the association's territory 

 by Frank E. Lutz and William W. Chambers, in which it was shown 

 that a vast amount of interest had been stimulated and that the mos- 

 quito problem in that section of Long Island had received a pretty 

 thorough investigation. The work of this association appears to have 

 lagged as the years went by until 1914, when a bill was enacted by the 

 Legislature of the State of New York creating the Nassau County Mos- 

 quito Extermination Commission. 



In 1903, there was formed in New York a National Society for the 

 suppression of the mosquito pest, known as the American Mosquito 



