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 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.
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