A MODEL OF THE HOUSE FLY 

 This model fifteen inches in length and 64,000 times the size of the living fly, is the product of nearly 

 one y -s ^oi b^Mr Ignaz Matausch, preparator. It is doubtless ^^^^^J^Tt 

 representation of the external anatomy of the common house fly (Muscadomestica) m existence, jot not 

 XwTSe more striking features been faithfully copied, but even the lesser details visile upon a 

 magnification of forty diameters have been modeled with the utmost accuracy 

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