82 Proceedings of Ninth Annual, Meeting 



The committee endorsed the mosquito manual and recom- 

 mended the same to the various mosquito commissions as worthy 

 of their consideration. 



The committee decided that preUminary to any other action 

 in the matter of the suggested bond issue, a publicity campaign 

 be undertaken through the above-mentioned film and manual. 



The committee instructed the secretary to send a letter to 

 each commission asking them to appoint a member for the com- 

 mittee on mechanical means of drainage and maintenance of 

 the salt marsh as proposed at the last convention. 



It ordered the printing of i,ooo letterheads. 



It instructed the secretary to distribute bound volumes of the 

 proceedings as follows : one to each of the ten active mosquito 

 extermination commissions, one to each officer, past president, 

 and executive officers, one copy to Dr. Frederick L. Hoffman, 

 Dr. Jacob G. Lipman, Dr. L. O. Howard, J. A. Le Prince, 

 Alfred Gaskill, The Philadelphia Board of Health, New Jersey 

 Historical Society, U. S. National Museum, Societies of Red 

 Cross of Switzerland, Princeton University Library, Rutgers 

 College Library, N. J. Experiment Station Library, Entomolog- 

 ical Department Library, Newark Public Library, Jersey City 

 Public Library and Atlantic City Public Library. It further 

 instructed the secretary, in view of the extreme importance of 

 additional bound copies for future use to secure as many com- 

 plete additional sets as possible and have them bound. 



The committee authorized the secretary to prepare a program 

 for the coming meeting but laid the time and place of the con- 

 vention over until the next meeting. 



The committee authorized the treasurer to open a checking 

 account with the New Jersey Title Guarantee and Trust Com- 

 pany, Bergen Branch, in Jersey City, N. J., and further author- 

 ized the treasurer to sign all checks withdrawing funds from the 

 said account. 



In the meeting held at Paterson the committee examined the 

 moving picture film entitled 'Warfare Against the Mosquito in 

 New Jersey," which was prepared on the authority delegated by 

 the committee at its meeting in Jersey City. 



The committee heard the report of the treasurer in the course 

 of which it was shown that all the assessments, other than the 

 one from Middlesex, had been collected and that disbursements 

 to the amount of $132.13 had taken place. 



The tentative program presented by the secretary was consid- 

 ered, modified and accepted, and the secretary was instructed 

 to go ahead with the preparation of the final program. The 



