Oct., '05] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 279 



A general body like this can, without just cause of offense, strive for 

 the cure of monumental evils by legislation and otherwise, as it has done 

 in the case of the New Jersey-Staten Island marshes, where only great 

 engineering plans, involving many interests, will permanently change 

 conditions. 



It can suggest Government or State and local action and laws, without 

 being considered intrusive. 



It can interest the press in the idea and secure articles urging action in 

 respective localities. This has been going on for years past with most 

 important results. There are few periodicals now that treat the question 

 otherwise th%n as a great public question. 



Possibly the most important press aid secured, on account of its five 

 million, and over, readers, is that of the " Ladies' Home Journal," which 

 in its June number gave some plain facts and directions for the abatement 

 of the evil in domestic situations. 



At the request of the Society, the New York State University has sent 

 to our selected list the very valuable report on Mosquitos by Dr. E. 

 Porter Felt, the New York State Entomologist, and Dr. Felt is also pre- 

 paring a pamphlet to go to all the public school teachers of the State. 



ADVISORY BOARD OF ENTOMOLOGISTS : 



Leiand O. Howard. Ph. D., Wash., D. C. Prof. H. A. Morgan, Louisiana. 



Dr. E. Porter Felt, New York. Prof. Herbert Osborn, Ohio. 



Dr. John B. Smith, New Jersey. Prof. G. H. Perkins, Vermont. 



Prof. J. M. .\ldrich, Idaho. Prof. E. D. Sanderson, New Hampshire. 



Prof. R. H. Pettit, Michigan. Dr. Henry Skinner, Pennsylvania. 



Prof. F. L. Washbuni, Minnesota. Prof. C. F. Hodge, Massachusetts. 



Prof. W. E. Britton, Connecticut. Dr. W. N. Berkeley, New York. 



Prof. C. E. Chambliss. South Carolina. D. W. Coquillett, Dist. of Columbia. 



Dr. H. T. Fernald, Massachusetts. Dr. H. G. Dyar, Dist. of Columbia. 



Prof. S. A. Forbes. Illinois. Prof. Glenn W. Herrick. Mississippi. 



Prof. H. Garman, Kentucky. Prof. J. H. Comstock, Cornell I iiiversily. 



Prof. C. P. Gillette, Colorado. Prof. H. E. Summers, Iowa. 



Prof. H. A. Gossard, Florida. Prof. D. L. Van Dine, Honolulu. 



Prof. V. L. Kellogg, California. Prof. O. W. Barrett, Porto Rico. 



Prof. Trevor Kincaid, Seattle, Wash. Prof. C. S. Banks, Manila. 



Henry Clay Weeks, Sec'y, 



Bayside, Long Island, New York City. 



" Gran'-pa ! I say, gran '-pa ! There's such a funny fly on the ceiling ! " 



(No answer.) 

 " Gran'-pa ! There's a 'normous big fly on the ceiling." 

 " Yes, yes, boy ! All right ; put your foot on it— don't bother me !" — 



Newspaper. 



"I've been working like a dog today," said the State entomologist, 

 wearily. 



" How's that," said his friend, guilelessly, "catching insects?" — News- 

 paper. 



