New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-08-23
THE GUILTY MOSQUITO.
1T HAS BEEN FOUND IN AFRIcA-THE
HOME BREEDS ARE INDICATED
AND MAY GET THEIR
ID A
SWORDS BACK.

Probably there never was a summer before when
such fierce light beat upon insect life and insect
activity as has beat upon them this summer IL
began with norensive things like hreiiies, and u
soon got to insects Of prey like the melanolestes
plcpes the very Borgla of insects. Many persons,
in a silly and soft hearted way, soon forgaye the
melanolestes picipes on the representation that
Il was not doing any more poisoning this year than
usual but The Tribune has always been firm In
denouncing its treachery and always will be so
till the bug is formally acquitted by properly
constituted court malarfal.
And that last word introduces the present sub
ject Yesterday dispatch published from
Major Ross. head OF the Malarial Expedition sent
out by the Liverpool School OF Tropical Diseases 70
investigate the administration OF mosquitoes. mo
dispatch was from Sierra Leone and 1t said:
The maarial mosquito has been found.
That was all that II said. but II is natural 70 sup
pose that extradition Will follow next. Major hoss,
1t appears went to West Africa TO prove that what
he calls the wild mosquito does not spread
malaria or else that It does. The newspaper ae-
count published yesterday not quite clear on
the point II said In one place that Major ROSS
believed that the wild mosquito was not guilty.
and a few lines further on he thought II was NO
wonder he wanted to go 10 some quiet place ana
prove anything that might develop from the eN'
dence.
LIVERPOOL is a damp, dirty disagreeable place to
Major Ross went 10 West Africa instead OF 10
Sandy Hook or Rennes or some other comfor'ao's
and convenient proving ground. But these men VI
science always have to go half way ROUND the EARN
whether they are looking for a mosquito or tran
sit Of Venus. -
Perhaps the reader pay like to know JUS, "na'
is meant by the wild mosquito ~ is the ono
which breeds IN small ponds or pudoies anu
never made domestic pet like that wnlch o'eeu'
in tubs and cisterns and rain barrels some Peo
ple do not make the distinction on whch N@1o'
Ross insists and treat with equal harshhess NO
wild MOSQUITO and the tame househoid sh'ina'
which is always grateful for Kindness anu
,rs ~ 90 into the country with the family IN ths
summer. In New-Jersey some fairiy suc9esSU -.
,ennts have been made TO domestcate the via
osns,,,,,o and I, ia there as we'll in Liverpool
that certain busybodies have insinuated Una. nno'
ouitoes in general return evil for good by spFeS~
malaria in the homes where 'he' nav"
ceiyed as welcome guests 49,.
Therefore 70 Is pleasant 10 read Major N
dispatch meagre OF detail as II Is For MS ue''aa
tion that he has found the malarial Hosf4Oo
IMPLIES that the malarial mosquito mas NOT uO"
fonnd before: that lie, that neither the ldiH'''
domestic MOSQUITO nor the somewhat known ""'
nosouto is the malarial one. Therefore al mo
humane people Of New-Jersey and elsewhere VIM
have put I'D mosquito bars, while u went 70 ~
haar,s "a 40 so NAV take them down. with tne
assurance that there isn't maldria III ~
the New-Jersey breed
II "a honed that this whole subject has now been
nads as clear as II can be until more details are
received from Major Ross The task OF popular.
izine science Is sometimes an arduous one, put ~
paws in the long and II Is pleasant 10 teei tns
fbe hepless dumb beasts which assist in their httI
ways TO make life so varied