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M. DE SEGUY'S discovery of larvæ of Musca domestica in the bodies of snails, Dr. J. C. Gahan's observations thereon in the Times, and the note in NATURE of December 18 last are very interesting to biologists, but it is most improbable that a winter crusade against the Helicidæ would have any appreciable effect in diminishing the summer swarms of flies.
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MAXWELL, H. The Hibernation of the House-fly. Nature 104, 435–436 (1920). https://doi.org/10.1038/104435c0
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