112 PREVENTIVE AND REMEDIAL WORK AGAINST MOSQUITOES. 



" The Value of Reclaimed Swamp Lands for Agricultural Uses, " by Milton Whitney. 



" Antimosquito Work in Havana," by Col. W. C. Gorgas, U. S. A. 



"How the Law Should Aid," by Paul D. Cravath, 



"New York State's Part in Mosquito Extermination," by E. P. Felt. 



"What the Government Should Do," by F. C. Beech. 



"Mosquito Engineering," by Henry Clay Weeks. 



"The Work of the Department of Health, New York City," by Henry C. Weeks. 



Following this organization meeting, a somewhat elaborate organi- 

 zation was perfected, including an advisory board and an advisory 

 board of entomologists. The proceedings of the convention were pub- 

 lished in pamphlet form and were distributed free of charge. A mos- 

 quito brief was published as a folder giving mosquito information. 

 In November, 1904, Bulletin No. 1 of the society was published, 

 which contained in digested form an account of the work which had 

 been going on in the meantime. Bulletin No. 2 contained a report 

 of the president and secretary to the executive council, published 

 September 26, 1905, and in 1906 was also published a yearbook for 

 1904-1905, which 'contained the proceedings of the second annual 

 convention of the organization. These proceedings contained a num- 

 ber of valuable addresses, some of which may be mentioned : 



"Diversities among New York Mosquitoes," by E. P. Felt. 



"Mosquito Extermination in New Jersey," by John B. Smith. 



"Extermination and Dissection of Mosquitoes," by M. J. Rosenau of the United 

 States Public Health and Marine-Hospital Service. 



"Mosquito Extermination in New York City," by Thomas Darlington. 



"The Mosquito Question," by Quitman Kohnke. 



" The Relation of Mosquito Extermination to Engineering," by Cornelius C. Ver- 

 meule. 



The society continued its work, and unquestionably well justified 

 its organization. In 1907, however, it was deemed by the officers of 

 the society that the objects of its existence could well be taken over 

 by the National Drainage Association, which had then recently been 

 formed and which placed among its most prominent motives the idea 

 of securing favorable government action in redeeming the marshes 

 and swamps of the country. It was decided that the society should 

 retire from its field of work and leave the same to the Government, 

 States, and other authorities and to individuals, and the society then 

 disbanded. 



In 1903-1904 work against mosquitoes was undertaken by the State 

 entomologist of Connecticut, Dr. W. E. Britton, who made careful 

 mosquito surveys over the whole State and who published in his 

 annual report for 1904 a careful and well-illustrated article devoted 

 to showing how the mosquito nuisance can be abated. Since that 

 time some active work has been taken up. In 1906 the board of 

 health of Millburn Township in New Jersey secured the services of 

 Mr. Weeks, and pubHshed a pamphlet entitled ''The Mosquito Nui- 

 sance in Millburn Township and How to Abate It,'^ 



