. Carnegie Institution of Washington publication. FURTHER RESEARCHES ON NORTH AMERICAN ACRIDIID^. 5 until a health certificate enabling me to travel freely could be secured. An examination of the country showed that owing to the daily and long-continued torrential rains which characterized the early summer in Louisiana, Arkansas, Texas, and the Territories, effective collect- ing was impossible in consequence of the semi-inundated condition of the flat country. J i f Sept. 5 ! OKLAHOMA • | ff Aug. 20 IND. • ~ TERR. FIG. i.—Sketch map showing route traversed during the season of 1905. At this j
. Carnegie Institution of Washington publication. FURTHER RESEARCHES ON NORTH AMERICAN ACRIDIID^. 5 until a health certificate enabling me to travel freely could be secured. An examination of the country showed that owing to the daily and long-continued torrential rains which characterized the early summer in Louisiana, Arkansas, Texas, and the Territories, effective collect- ing was impossible in consequence of the semi-inundated condition of the flat country. J i f Sept. 5 ! OKLAHOMA • | ff Aug. 20 IND. • ~ TERR. FIG. i.—Sketch map showing route traversed during the season of 1905. At this juncture I was fortunately able to secure from an author- itative source information of the true magnitude of the fever situation in Louisiana. This was to the effect, as everyone now knows, that the fever had been in the city two months instead of a few days, that nearly 100 cases had occurred to date, and that two other points, and probably more, besides New Orleans, were infected. This statement was accompanied with the advice of one experienced in fever quaran- tines to " get out of the State as soon as you can, //you ; Under the circumstances, in order to avoid prolonged delay under highly unfavorable working conditions and the waste of valuable time and opportunity, it seemed best to act at once upon this advice, which was done forthwith. Texas and Mississippi having already declared a quarantine against Louisiana, the next day saw me at work in western Arkansas, in which section and the eastern part of the Indian Territory I collected with good results while awaiting development of the fever situation. Find- ing that there was no prospect, owing to quarantine restrictions, of. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Carnegie Institution of Washington. Washington, Carnegie In
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