Proceedings of the Third Annual Meeting. 



FIRST SESSION. 

 Thursday Afternoon, February i/th, 1916. 



The meeting was called to order at 2 120 P. M., with Presi- 

 dent Ralph H. Hunt in the chair. 



The President — It becomes my pleasure and privilege to 

 welcome you to this meeting of the New Jersey Mosquito Exter- 

 mination Association. We have all joined together for the last 

 few years, each one enthusiastically lending whatever ability lay 

 in him to carry on the fight against the mosquito, which admit- 

 tedly is one of the worst pests, probably the worst under which 

 the State of New Jersey is laboring. We all feel that no sacri- 

 fice, or reasonable expenditure of money, would be unreasonable 

 if in the end we could rid the State of this nuisance. 



This is the third annual meeting of this society, and each 

 meeting has added an impetus to the fight, encouraging each and 

 every one to enter into the work more heartily and with more 

 enthusiasm. The results, as yet, of our work are not perfect, 

 but they are growing better and better all the time and we all 

 feel and know that success will crown our efforts in the end. 



The ignorance of the ordinary person in regard to the life his- 

 tory and habits of mosquitoes seems to be more prevalent than it 

 really should be. It was only this afternoon that a bright news- 

 paper man asked me questions concerning the range of flight of 

 certain types of mosquitoes. The lack of knowledge seems to be 

 as fully rooted as the proverbial ignorance of the Englishman 

 toward this country who thought we were living in the woods 

 and fighting savages on our way to our daily business. 



They have put me on the program in several places to-day, so 

 I shall not take more of your time in opening this meeting, but 

 will begin at once with the program. I simply wish, as an intro- 

 duction, to state that the influence of these meetings is evidently 



