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purpose of the present paper, however, it is unnecessary to do 

 more than place this important fact on record, since it is hoped 

 that what has been stated in the foregoing pages will suffice to 

 prove that, even though an edict were to go forth to-morrow 

 for the destruction of every buffalo, antelope, and zebra in 

 Africa between Cape Verde and St. Lucia Lake, there are no 

 reasonable grounds for supposing that tsetse-flies would cease 

 to exist. In matters of sanitation, as in other affairs, partial 

 measures are notoriously ineffective, and those who are clamour- 

 ing for the abolition of big game and game reserves, on the plea 

 that by their retention we are retaining tsetse-flies and the con- 

 tingent perils, will find their proposals, even if adopted, of little 

 avail, unless in their proscription they can contrive to include the 

 birds, crocodiles, lizards, snakes, and practically every form of 

 vertebrate life. 



