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I was so much interested in it that as one of my Museum 

 reports, which have been issued on the Birds, the Fishes, the 

 Flowers, etc., I had John B. Smith write one on the Insects of 

 New Jersey. I think there are quite a number of them still in 

 the Museum. Mr. Gaskill probably can tell you, because he is 

 the head of the Museum now. I don't know who has charge of 

 the Museum, but I think Mr. Kiimmel, and I think you can get 

 one by writing to either Mr. Gaskill or Mr. Kiimmel. 



I certainly am heartily interested in the extermination of mos- 

 quitoes. When I first came to Atlantic City — and I am a 

 Yankee from Maine — fifty years ago last April, we had plenty 

 of them. I have seen the mosquitoes on the beach from where 

 I lived on South Carolina Avenue, nearly two squares away, so 

 thick that I thought my bathhouses were on fire. You don't 

 see it any more. I am not here in the summertime, but the 

 people who are here in my house don't have to use screens. 

 When I 'first came here I could hardly live on account of mos- 

 quitoes. Therefore, I know the Atlantic County Commission 

 is doing a wonderful work. I wish to say that in the schools 

 of this city, in which I have been interested nearly all the time 

 I have lived here, the pupils are taught how to exterminate mos- 

 quitoes. The Commission brought down our friend Dr. Headlee 

 to show the children in the schools and parents how to extermi- 

 nate mosquitoes, and the children took hold of it, not only mos- 

 quitoes but flies. They received a reward for the number of 

 flies they would kill, and have done wonderful work. 



I didn't know that there were mosquitoes in my own cellar 

 until John B. Smith told me and how to exterminate them. I 

 didn't have any more. I am certainly in accord with all that can 

 be done in New jersey. If you want to make it the Garden State 

 and the best State in the Union, exterminate the mosquitoes. 



The President — There is a gentleman here from New York 

 from whom we should like to hear, Mr. Eckman. 



Mr. Eckman! — I am sure I didn't come here to do anything 

 but learn, gentlemen, because I am a very youngster in this work. 

 Since last summer, for the very first time, we are getting support 



