FOREWORD 



CAPTAINS PATTON AND CRAGG have asked me to write a Foreword to 

 their textbook on Medical Entomology. I have much pleasure in doing 

 so, even though the full preface written by the authors leaves me little to 

 say and the importance of the subject is so well known that no obiter 

 dicta of mine are called for. 



I have watched this book through all its stages and I know perhaps 

 better than any one else the enormous labour that has been entailed by 

 its preparation. It covers an immense and in many places untrodden 

 field : it is moreover thoroughly practical and the greatest care has been 

 taken in the description of technique. 



For both these reasons it will be extremely useful to all workers in 

 Medical Entomology, and I trust that it will meet with the success 

 which it undoubtedly deserves. 



With these few remarks I leave the book to speak for itself. 



DELHI, ) 



November 25, 1913 \ C. P. LUKIS, 



Director-General, 

 Indian Medical Service. 



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