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NOTES. 
M. Ledoul^e has forwarded to the Geographical Society valuable 
information concerning the tzetze fly, of which a notice has 
already appeared in “ L’Union Medicale.” All travellers in 
equatorial Africa have had good reason to notice the destructive 
power of this insect, the sting of which is death to oxen, horses, 
asses, camels, and even to dogs. Dr. Kirk, British Consul at 
Zanzibar, has, at the present moment, a work in preparation on 
the tzetze fly, which he considers to be one of the greatest ob- 
stacles to the civilisation of Africa. A curious fact has been 
noticed in the post-mortem examination of animals which have 
died from the effects of the tzetze fly’s sting — namely, that there 
is no lesion whatever of the spleen, liver, lungs, or brain. The 
symptoms causing death resemble those of glanders. It is sup- 
posed that this disease is infectious to animals of the same 
species . — Medical Press and Circular. 
Speaking of the twenty-eighth Annual Report of the “ Science 
and Art Department,” the “ Standard ” happily says — “ It is 
quite as bulky, as intensely official, and if possible more self- 
complacent than ordinary.” 
It is an error to assert that the fly now committing depreda- 
tions in the olive-grounds of Southern France ( Dacus olece ) is a 
species not hitherto observed. It was mentioned forty years ago 
under the same name, by Prof. Westwood, in his “ Modern 
Classification of Insects.” 
Prof. Huxley, in a Lecture delivered before the Medical Con- 
gress, asserts that “ The essence of modern, as contrasted with 
ancient physiological science, appears to lie in its antagonism to 
animistic hypotheses and animistic phraseology.” 
Miss F. P. Cobbe has been throwing some more “ broken 
light ” upon vivisection, before an audience of lady dog-fanciers 
and sentimentalists at Edinburgh. Mr, D. McLaren followed in 
a similarly illogical strain. 
We have this season fully confirmed the statement that the 
tomato plant is avoided by earwigs, caterpillars, aphides, the 
cuckoo-spit insect ( Aplirophora spuinaria), and even by slugs and 
snails. But it does not appear to have any protective influence 
upon other plants in its immediate neighbourhood. 
M. H. Toussaint (“ Comptes Rendus ”) has experimentally 
established the parasitical character of tuberculosis. He has 
