6 TEXAS NATURE OBSERVATIONS AND REMINISCENCES. 



base of that cactus, close to the 

 roots of same. 



The sting was so painful that, 

 in spite of some chloroform, used, 

 it lasted the entire day. Usually 

 on such trips I carried my emer- 



photo, also seen in the miniature 

 collection, (second last row) after 

 having chloroformed all the scor- 

 pions. 



The following statistics of the 

 tropical scorpion show same 



gency box with me, containing a to be a more dangerous type 



few necessary surgical appliances than the Texas variety: 



Miniature Photo Collection of Texas Insects and Other Animals 



and also a hypodermic syringe, 

 carbolic acid, cocaine, iodine, per- 

 manganate of potassium, camphor, 

 etc., and some of these appliances 

 would have given instant relief. 

 Before disposing of the large 

 scorpion and its young brood, 

 which were quite fully developed 

 already, I managed to prepare a 



From an authentic official source 

 from a border town of Mexico, 

 the following deaths occurred from 

 the stings of scorpions (mostly 

 children of the poor, and a fe:w 

 peong rambling around barefooted 

 at night) : In 1906 fifty-four deaths 

 occurred; in 1907 fifty-one deaths; 

 and in 1908, forty-seven deaths. 



