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of the matter must depend upon others to see for him. to act 

 for him and to conckide for him, as occasion may demand. He 

 is at the mercy of his assistants at times, and upon their faith- 

 fidness and intelhgence his results depend. 



I beheve that I have been singularly fortunate in this respect. 

 I have had no reason to doubt the loyalty or honesty of any of 

 the men who have acted or observed for me, and all of them 

 have at all times endeavored to obtain the results expected of 

 them ; oftimes at much physical discomfort and under adverse 

 conditions. Every man deserves credit for th.e work done by 

 him, tho it be but a step toward the goal, and I wish to express 

 both my obligation and g-ratitude to each of those that have 

 aided me. 



Throughout the investigation Mr. J. Turner Brakeley, of 

 Bordentown, has given most important aid as a volunteer field 

 observer, especially on such species as occur in the Pine belt of 

 Ocean County, where he has a cranberry plantation. It was Mr. 

 Brakeley who first found wrigglers in the leaves of the Pitcher- 

 plant. Soraccnia purpurea and worked out the life history of 

 what proved to be a new species, now known as IVeyomyio 

 sinitliii. Incidentally, he demonstrated for the first time that 

 they mig'ht be frozen and thawed out repeatedly without injury; 

 also that their eggs might be laid in dry places. It was Mr. 

 Brakeley, also, who demonstrated that Cidcx uiclanurus passed 

 the winter in the larval stage, and in that investigation he 

 tramped the bogs in sleet and rain storms in midwinter, and col- 

 lected in ice-cold water until he was drenched and his fingers 

 SO' benumbed with cold that he could no longer handle the col- 

 lecting materials. But he persisted until his facts were established 

 beyond peradventure. and. incidentally, he found not only eg'gs 

 of Ciilcx cauodoisis but the interesting- point that they might 

 hatch in the first days of February in ice-cold water and even 

 in ice-covered pools. He found the larva of Culcx aurifcr and 

 of Corcthrella brakeley i, species until then altogether unknown, 

 and he was the first to breed Corefhra cincfipcs. With infinite 

 patience he collected over his entire territory and noted details 

 of his collections at great length. It is safe to say that he has 

 found all the species that breed at Lahaway, where his planta- 

 tions are situated, and this is of great importance when we find 

 that in an experience of three years he never once found the 

 larva of either Culcx sol lici fans or C. cant at or, the dominant 

 species throughout the pines. Much of my information con- 

 cerning the habits of Anopheles larvae and the hibernating habits 

 of the adult also comes from Mr. Brakeley, and throughout this 

 report frequent references are made to Mr. Brakeley's observa- 



