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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 1 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.5 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, a« 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 lake into 

 the fly country at all. — E. C. Buxlon. 



[Mr. Buxton has kindly sent the information in reply to 

 my note, at p. 217 of this volume. — E. Newman.^ 



Death of Mr. Jeihro 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 

 sectiqn 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 



