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work in New Jersey is mandatory on the county free-holders, he urged that im¬ 
mediate steps be taken to prevent the passage of such an act. An interesting pap 
on the influence of various substances as attractive and repellent agents upon b 
havior of mosquitoes was presented by Dr. William Rudolfs of the New Jersey E - 
periment Station. Papers were read covering the progress of anti-mosquito work in 
New Jersey. Connecticut and New York. Ten counties in New Jersey engaged in 
anti-mosquito work were represented as follows: Atlantic, Fred A. Reiley and Hube 
Somers; Essex, James E. Brooks and Abram H. Cornish; Passaic. Frank Wilkinson; 
Bergen, Alfred J. Tipping; Hudson, Lewis E. Jackson; Union, Louis Richards; 
Middlesex, William Dinwiddie; Monmouth, Dr. G. Van Voris Warner; Ocean, 
Robert F. Engle; Cape May, Alan de P. Ewing. A paper by Robert C. Botsford on 
the Connecticut work was illustrated by lantern slides. Mr. William De Mott- 
presented a paper on the anti-mosquito work in Nassau County, Long Island. The 
subjects of oiling, larvicides, ditching and ditch cleaning, machinery, education in 
public schools, legislation and others were discussed and illustrated. The conven¬ 
tion was well attended and thoroughly interesting and instructive. 
