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f. Reference was made to Bacon’s private correspondence, and 
more particularly to his ‘‘ Promus of Formularies,” which 
has been found to contain many hundreds, if not thousands 
of references to special phrases and subjects in the plays and 
sonnets, all of which point to one conclusion, that Bacon 
wrote ‘‘ Shakespeare.” 
‘“Why write I still all one, ever the same, 
And keep invention in a noted weed, 
That every word doth almost tell my name, 
Showing their birth and whence they did proceed.” 
(Sonnet 76.) 
A CHAT ABOUT THE HOUSEFLY. 
By J. RHODES. February 24th, 1885. 
The female Housefly (Musea domestica) like all other insects, 
is careful to deposit her eggs upon some substance which will be 
suitable food for the issuing offspring. Having discovered some 
putrefying material, she hovers round it and deposits about 80 
beautiful little eggs in the space of about a quarter of an hour. 
In two or three days the maggot or larva hatches out. It is a 
small worm like creature having a body divided into thirteen 
segments or rings, the front one or head, being furnished with a 
pair of hooked jaws and curious globular palpi. 'The second 
segment bears two rudimentary feet, and on each side of all the 
segments breathing pores are to be found. 
The larva is almost constantly eating, and grows at a very 
rapid rate. In the course of a few days it however assumes the 
pupa form. This change is effected by the hardening of the 
outer skin, which becomes so brown and tough as to make the 
maggot look like a little bright barrel. In this barrel a wonderful 
transformation takes place, so that in a few days the pretty, 
graceful well-known housefly bursts forth and spreads her wings 
in the sunshine. 
The Housefly has a body divided into three parts; the head, 
thorax, and abdomen. 
The Head bears externally the organs of sense and nutrition, 
viz: the antenne or feelers: the eyes, and the mouth. 
Internally, it contains the cerebral ganglion and sensory 
nerves. 
The Thorax or chest, bears the organs of locomotion, viz: 
six legs, two wings, and two halteres or poisers. 
The Abdomen, which bears no external members, is com- 
posed of several rings, and contains the intestines, respiratory 
apparatus, the many-chambered heart, and the reproductive 
organs, ; 
