PROCEEDINGS 



Of THE 



FOURTH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE NEW JERSEY 

 MOSQUITO EXTERMINATION ASSOCIATION 



Held at Hotel Traymore, Atlantic City, 

 January 25=26, 1917 



Atlantic City, N. J., January 25, 19 17. 



THURSDAY AFTERNOON SESSION. 



, (The meeting was called to order at 2 140^ P. M. by President 

 D'arnall. ) 



President Darnaet — Ladies and gentlemen : It gives me 

 great pleasure toi wielcome you tO' Atlantic, City again on this 

 very important occasion. It is with real pleasure, I think, that 

 we see this miovement growing and enthusiasm spreading. We 

 have to-day nearl}^ twelve hundred more members of this organ- 

 iation than; we had one year agO'. I think it will be probably a 

 short time when this association will numlber 5,ooO' men and 

 women, thoroughly interested in the extermination of the mos- 

 quito and thoroughly convinced of the good things and benefits 

 that will come from it. 



I will ask Dr. Brinkerhoff tO' take the chair. 



(Vice-President Brinkerhoff assumes the chair.) 



The Present Status of Mosquito Control in New Jersey. 



BY WM. EDGAR DARNAEE, A.M., M.D.^ E.A.C.S., 

 ATI^ANTIC CITY, N. J. 



Almost sixteen years agO' a small band of far seeing men in 

 Essex County, inspired by the studies of that enthusiastic and 

 able entomologist, Dr. John B. Smith, started the little wave of 



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