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Walter H. Larrimer
Larrimer was head of the USDA Insect Control Division and served as chair of one of ths subcommittees of the NAS-NRC study on Pest Control and Wildlife Relationships.
Be sure to review Chaps. 1-3,7,9-12 in Silent Spring. You should be able to comment on Carson's credibility and benefits and harms of pesticides.
Bibliography
National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Pest Control and Wildlife Relationships. Pest Control and Wildlife Relationships, Part --: ------. Washington, D.C.: National Academy of Sciences-National Research Council (Pub. #920-A, B, C), 1962-63.
Graham, Since Silent Spring.
United States Department of Agriculture (1957-1965). Report of the Secretary of Agriculture, Washington, D.C.
Consider also the books by Lavine & Zimmerman, Leary & Fishbein, and Whorton about early DDT use.
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