April, ’24] 
NOTES ON MEDICAL ENTOMOLOGY 
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Pacific Slope Notes 
Dr. William Moore of the American Cyanamide Company visited southern 
California after the Cincinnati meetings, returning to New York via New Orleans 
and Washington. 
Mr. Neguil Iskander, Assistant Entomologist in the Ministry of Agriculture, 
Cairo, Egypt, spent several weeks in California, investigating methods of insect 
control. He was particularly interested in fumigation with liquid hydrocyanic acid 
gas. 
Mr. A. J. Flebut, who has been in charge of the Citrus Thrips Project, with head¬ 
quarters at Lindsay, Calif., has resigned, effective January 1, 1924, to accept a 
position with the General Chemical Company, San Francisco. It is understood that 
he will have charge of the insecticide department of this company, succeeding the 
late S. W. Foster. 
Notes on Medical Entomology 
Professor Herbert Osborn, of Ohio State University, is spending a few weeks visiting 
in southern California. Recently the entomologists at the Citrus Experiment Station 
at Riverside, Harold Compere, A. J. Basinger and Harry S. Smith, arranged a col¬ 
lecting trip for Professor Osborn and Professor Lawrence Bruner to Palm Springs 
Canon in the Colorado Desert. Collecting was rather poor owing to the abnormally 
dry season, but some interesting species were secured. 
According to the Official Record , Dr. W. V. King in charge of investigations of 
insects affecting the health of man at Mound, La., has experimented in dusting 
swamps with an airplane to kill mosquitoes. The dust consisted of Paris green 
heavily diluted with Tripoli earth, and similar materials have been recommended in 
certain cases by the United States Public Health Service. The airplane offers simply 
a wholesale method of application, and proved very successful. 
Professor H. J. Quayle, of the Citrus Expermiment Station at Riverside, California> 
has returned from a trip around the world. Professor Quayle carried on some 
interesting demonstrations of the use of calcium cyanide in Australia for control of 
the red scale of citrus. He also demonstrated the use of this material for control 
of the rabbit plague in that country, where it gives promise of much success. Some 
time was spent in Spain in an investigation of citrus insects and arrangements were 
made for the Spanish Government to secure beneficial insects from California, through 
Dr. L. O. Howard and Harry S. Smith. 
The eleventh annual meeting of the New Jersey Mosquito Extermination Asso¬ 
ciation was held at the Hotel Traymore in Atlantic City, February 13, 14, and 15, 
1924. Dr. L. O. Howard, Chief of the Bureau of Entomology, U. S. Department of 
Agriculture, gave an address on some recent developments in anti-mosquito work and 
Major Joseph Le Prince, Senior Sanitary Engineer, U. S. Public Health Service, 
gave an excellent account of the anti-mosquito work in the South. The New Jersey 
State Federation of Women’s Clubs of 40,000 members was represented by Mrs. 
Clayton B. Lee, Mrs. Bertha H. Boynton and Mrs. Charles A. Prickett. Dr. Jacob 
G. Lipman, Director of the New Jersey State Experiment Station, gave a review of the 
anti-mosquito legislation and an account of the present attempt to repeal all man¬ 
datory state laws. Inasmuch as the collection of funds for mosquito elimination 
