Excerpt from Notes on the Mosquitoes of the United States: Giving Some Account of Their Structure and Biology, With Remarks on Remedies The writer first became interested in mosquitoes, thirty years or more ago, when as a boy he fished and collected insects in the marshes at the head Of Cayuga Lake, New York, and as early as 1867 had experimented with the kerosene remedy against mosquito larvae in a horse trough at Ithaca. In 1881 he discussed with Dr. A. F. A. King and the late C. V. Riley the bearings Of the theory, ...
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Excerpt from Notes on the Mosquitoes of the United States: Giving Some Account of Their Structure and Biology, With Remarks on Remedies The writer first became interested in mosquitoes, thirty years or more ago, when as a boy he fished and collected insects in the marshes at the head Of Cayuga Lake, New York, and as early as 1867 had experimented with the kerosene remedy against mosquito larvae in a horse trough at Ithaca. In 1881 he discussed with Dr. A. F. A. King and the late C. V. Riley the bearings Of the theory, which Dr. King was the first to bring forward in the United States, Of the probable rela tion between mosquitoes and malaria, both Dr. Riley and the writer contending, it must be confessed, that the arguments brought forward by Dr. King in conversation were based upon coincidental Observations, and afforded no good proof Of cause and effect. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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