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called in Lancashire); it was very common, and answered the 
description and picture, in Livingstone’s first book, accu- 
rately. We were frequently bitten by them: the bite was 
very sharp, and felt like a red-hot iron run into the flesh, but 
it did not leave any mark or inflammation, I caught several, 
but mislaid them somewhere, as | have been unable to find 
them. The dogs were frequently bitten; and one of them 
went blind within a week, and died in about a fortnight. 
The other did not show illness for some time later; and, as 
we left him with some of our party, knew nothing more about 
him than that he died. The fly appears only at certain 
seasons, and in limited localities. The head of a Kraal, 
about thirty miles distant from the point, where we found the 
tsetse most abundant, told us at that time the fly was not in 
his district, and pointed to a heifer and some goats, which he 
said he intended to send away before the fly season came on. 
There is a general opinion that the fly is connected, in some 
way, with the larger game, elephants, rhinoceros, &c., and some 
think that it breeds in their dung; but I never heard of any 
proof of this. Mr. Erskine was the only person that I met 
with who expressed any doubt about the tsetse; but, as I 
have not seen his paper, I do not know why he doubts it. 
The fly district nearest to Natal is about twenty days’ 
journey distant. Our horses and oxen we did not take into 
the fly country at all.—. C. Buxton. 
[Mr. Buxton has kindly sent the information in reply to 
my note, at p. 217 of this volume.—Z. Newman. |] 
Death of Mr. Jethro Tinker.—Mr. Jethro Tinker departed 
this life on the 10th inst., and was interred, at the parish 
church of Mottram-en-Longendale, on the 15th. He was one of 
those old hard-working entomologists and botanists to whom 
we, of the present day, owe so much, having followed Ento- 
mology and Botany for nearly seventy years. He was, for 
some time prior to his death, president of the botanical 
section of the Stalybridge Naturalist’s Club; and was ever 
ready to impart information and instruction to anyone seeking 
knowledge. He had lived to see many changes in the 
scientific world, being in his eighty-third year. His loss will 
be much felt by us in this part of the country; and I have no 
doubt but many, in all parts, will be able to recall to memory 
