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CHAPTER VII. 

 APPENDICES. 



APPENDIX A. 



Abstract of Lieut. -Colonel Bruce's " Further Report on 

 THE Tsetse-Fly Disease" ("Further Report on the 

 Tsetse-Fly Disease or Nagana in Zululand. By 

 Surgeon-Major David Bruce, A.M.S.— Ubombo, Zululand, 

 29th May, 1896.") (London : Harrison & Sons, St. Martin's 

 Lane, Printers in Ordinary to Her Majesty. 4th February, 

 1897. 69 pp., sm. folio. Plates I.-VI.) 



Since this is by far the most important work that has yet 

 appeared on Tsetse-fly Disease as affecting animals in Africa 

 itself, besides being, in conjunction with the no longer accessible 

 " Preliminary Report," of epoch-making interest as the memoir 

 in which the disease was first proved to be due to a hfematozoon, 

 it seems advisable to give a detailed analysis of its contents. 



The Report is prefaced by a covering letter — " To His 

 Excellency The Hon. Sir Walter Hely-Hutchinson, K.C.M.G., 

 Governor of Natal and Zululand, etc., etc.," in which the author, 

 after stating that, in accordance with His Excellency's instructions, 

 he "left Pietermaritzburg on the 21st August, 1895, and arrived 

 at Ubombo, Zululand, on the 8th September, 1895, for the purpose 

 of investigating the Tsetse-Fly Disease, or Nagana, as it occurs 

 in Zululand " — gives the following statement of its contents : — 



"1. — A description of the Tsetse-Fly, with experiments 

 designed to show the part this Fly takes in the causation of 

 the disease. 



"2. — A description of the Htematozoon or Blood Parasite, 

 which is the cause of the disease. 



" 3. — The results of experiments having for their object proof 

 of the connection which exists between the Big Game and the 

 spread of the disease. 



