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ah, 
= Eetcdivabic kind, and it necessarily follows that flies 
y millions ; they swarmed everywhere. Window screens 
: own or only within the reach of the rich. We need 
*r that 68,000 men, women and children paid the 
pe for the frightful conditions which must have 
d at that time. But we have before us an example 
t recent than the one just mentioned in testimony against 
ly. I refer to the frightful rate of mortality which pre- 
iled among our soldiers at Chickamauga. There is not the 
least doubt now in the minds of persons who have studied the 
— questic that the terrible typhoid scourge which occurred 
wall is directly traceable to flies, these insects flying from 
the © latrans or closets, to alight upon the very food which 
_ Was being eaten by the men at mess. It is revolting to think 
Upon, but it is nevertheless true. 
a _ And we are convinced that if the effects of the house fly and 
EE stone eon the destiny of man, could be shown at 
a gl to the people at large, the world would stand ap- 
by the vision and the elimination of the house fly would 
W as a matter of course, 
es Midiitonal Notes on the Life History tf 
x By Joun A. Grosspecx. 
Ata (Plate XXI11) 
SUI Tikdaey munsber of this journal, page 22, the discovery 
2 Sas larva of Culex perturbans in nature is reported by Pro- 
fessor J. B. Smith and in the report of the New Jersey Ex- 
' Periment Station for 1907 the life history as far as then known 
_ ig given by the present writer in some detail. The method of 
__ egg laying and the habits of the larva were worked out, but 
2S 
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¥ : It was with some interest therefore that the ap- 
| of spring was awaited and early in March the first 
__ Perturbans bunt was made at Trenton, N. J.,—not for the pur- 
pose of securing pupe but to gather in a host of larvae that 
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