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on that list had been members of the previous commission, Dr. 

 Flagg and myself. I told him it was a big job for a short time, 

 particularly without any help. I conferred with Dr. Flagg, in 

 view of the fact that he was one of the members of the old com- 

 mission. He immediately said that he felt that as long as we 

 had fallen down on the other commission, this commission should 

 be composed of entirely new men. I recalled to his mind the 

 fact that he and myself were the only two men who really put 

 up a protest. I suggested that possibly it would be a good plan 

 for us to try to vindicate ourselves. He immediately agreed. I 

 got one other man who had been suggested, Mr. McEwan, of 

 Woodlyn. We three w^ere the only ones out of the six who 

 could be reached at that time. Finally, by the second of Janu- 

 ary, I had succeeded in getting five, including myself. I did not 

 feel like going to Justice Parker with a list of names, my own 

 included, and ask him to appoint us a Mosquito Extermination 

 Commission from Morris County. So I went to the county 

 judge and suggested that he find another man from his vicinity, 

 Boonton, and submit these names to Justice Parker, which he 

 did. Justice Parker signed the order on the fourth of January. 

 On the fifth of January the commission was organized with four 

 men present. That was on Saturday, and on Monday, the sev- 

 enth, the line of action and the request for appropriations was 

 before the Board of Freeholders. 



Progress in Mosquito Work in Essex County 



BY WII^I^RID A. MANCHHE), NEWARK, N. J. 



I am not one of the pioneers in this work. I confess to little 

 technical knowledge of mosquito work from a scientific stand- 

 point. About the only identification marks I know are those 

 great red welts I find on my hands or face after I have been 

 bitten, and that is the way with the average citizen. He does not 

 care whether he is bitten by a female or a male. He does not 

 care whether he is bitten by a cantator or a sollicitans or a sylves- 

 tris. He does not care whether it is one of the kind that is bred 

 in his own home town or some other county. All he knows is 

 that that rascal bit him, and he is out for it. And then he says, 



