Illustrations of African blood-sucking flies other than mosquitoes and tsetse-flies / by Ernest Edward Austen.

  • Austen, E. E. (Ernest Edward), 1867-1938.
Date:
1909
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Illustrations of African blood-sucking flies other than mosquitoes and tsetse-flies / by Ernest Edward Austen. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    VII. subject of the dissemination of disease has been kept prominently in view, and the statements of investigators and observers who have devoted themselves to this question will be found summarised under special headings. In the records of specimens in the possession of the Museum, the names of collectors and donors are printed in italics, in parentheses. Within the last few years many Colonial Medical Officers in Africa, acting under official encouragement in compliance with instructions from His Majesty’s Secretary of State for the Colonies, have made and forwarded to the Museum collections of blood¬ sucking flies occurring within their districts. Had it not been for the efforts of these and other gentlemen, which have resulted in a welcome increase in the amount of the material in the possession of the Museum, the production of this book would have been well- nigh impossible, and grateful acknowledgment of assistance rendered is accordingly due. While the names of all who have thus assisted cannot here be enumerated, special mention must be made of Colonel Sir David Bruce, C.B., A.M.S., F.R.S. ; the late Dr. W. A. Densham, of Uganda ; the late Captain Hallam Hardy, R.A.M.C., of the Nyasaland Protectorate ; Dr. W. M. Graham, W.A.M.S. ; Dr. A. Yale Massey, late of the Tanganyika Concessions, Limited; Dr. J. E. S. Old, of the Nyasaland Protectorate; and Dr. E. Creighton Wellman, late of Benguella, Angola. To the authorities of the Museum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris, the British Museum (Natural History) is indebted for the loan of a number of types in their possession, which has rendered it possible to include figures of several species of Tabanus recently described by Mr. J. R. M. Surcouf. The author desires to express his acknowledg¬ ments to Mr. C. 0. Waterhouse, Assistant Keeper in charge of the Insect Section, Zoological Department, British Museum (Natural History), with whom it is but just to state that the idea of this book originated. In conclusion it is perhaps permissible to point out that in the matter of practical investigation by means of experiments on the spot, in order to determine the conveyance or non-conveyance of