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I AM disappointed to find that no one has answered “Harrovian's” query in vol. xii. p. 126, as to the mortality amongst the house-fly, and the yellow powder which covered the carcase. I have noticed myself that house-flies often die in numerous company. I had an idea that it was owing to the temperature failing to its benumbing point, until I found the same thing happening while the thermometer was particularly high. Then I thought that all these dead flies might belong to the same brood, and having lived under almost exactly the same circumstances, their threads of life were spun out at almost exactly the same time. This new theory, again, did not stand examination well under the microscope. But the result of my experiment differed slightly from that of “Harrovian.” At least I find I entered in my notes, “the body covered with white eruption, apparently a disease of the skin.”
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EDWARDES, D. The House-fly. Nature 12, 167 (1875). https://doi.org/10.1038/012167c0
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