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and every mosquito crusade wherever conducted must be preceded 

 or accompanied by the investigations of such men. 



President Hudson : Discussion may be had now for a short 

 time on any of these matters. 



Mr. William Porter (Cape May) : Mr. President, it would 

 seem in order that a vote of thanks be given to Dr. Howard, and 

 I move you a vote of thanks. 



(The motion was seconded, put to a vote and carried). 



Mr. Spencer Miller : Mr. Chairman, as I reflect over the work 

 in New Jersey I bring to mind the fact that we have had three great 

 leaders in the scientific work: Dr. Howard, Dr. Smith, and Dr. 

 Headlee. They led the grand work and told us what was scientific 

 and right and the rest of us have been their servants. We have 

 taken their direction and have carried on the real work, the prac- 

 tical work of doing it. 



Now there is just one thing that seems to me to be necessary 

 and desirable to enrich this society, and that is to add Dr. Howard's 

 name as an honorary member. Dr. Smith, of course, is gone ; his 

 great work is left behind as a monument. Dr. Headlee is with us 

 and is a member. Dr. Howard has been a guest for many years and 

 I would like to make the motion that we make him an honorary 

 member of this association. 



(The motion was seconded by Mr. A. G. Rider, and carried). 



Mr. Alfred Gaskill (Trenton) : Mr. President, it seems to me 

 that there is one point brought out in Dr. Howard's paper that 

 perhaps should be emphasized. It should have a good bit of weight 

 upon the efforts that are being made throughout the state to carry 

 on this work more effectively and more rapidly; and that is the 

 reference to the reasonable cost of the work that is being done here. 

 I recall he said that $36 was expended per acre to clear up an area 

 that bore objectionable mosquitoes. When that is compared with the 

 $5 or less an acre that is the average cost of the salt-marsh work — 

 and I think that some of our fresh-water work does not go very far 

 beyond that — it seems to me that that point, which is one of the 

 crucial ones in this work, deserves special emphasis. 



Secretary Headlee : Mr. Chairman, a thought has come to me 

 in the last two or three years relative to the extension of anti-mos- 

 quito work, as we understand it here, to the country at large. In 

 talking with Mr. LePrince this afternoon I was rather surprised to 

 hear him say that in the South, the people are not so much inter- 



