An appendix or supplement to a treatise on the Oestri and Cuterebrae of various animals. Read April 6th and 20th, 1841 / [Bracy Clark].

  • Bracy Clark
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[1845.]
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Credit: An appendix or supplement to a treatise on the Oestri and Cuterebrae of various animals. Read April 6th and 20th, 1841 / [Bracy Clark]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ascertained on my return to England, from a miserable relic in the Linnean cabinet, to have been identical with T. reticulata, L., which I pointed out to Dr. Smith, who informed other naturalists. The second was Dr. Leach’s CE. Clarhii, which I have shown in the present memoir to have been no other than the Linnean CE. nasalis, so called by mistake, the CE. veterinus of my enumeration. The present I believe to be a real novelty. ERRATA ET ADDENDA. Page 82, 1. 4,—read, or to the Cuterebrse. 1. 20,—read. The following is the passage of Avienus, as quoted in Boehart’s Geographia Sacra, p. 728,— In quo insulae sese exerunt CEstrymnides, Late jacentes et metallo divites, Stanni atque plumbi, &c. Also the following Tartesiisque interminos CEstrymnidum, Negotiandi mos erat. Avieni, Ora Maritima ; Toni. 5, p. 1181-5, ed. Helmstead 1792. The above passage has undoubted reference to the British Isles; and the Poet Avienus is supposed by his Grerraan commentators to have lived in the fourth century of our era. It will perhaps be reflected, however, that Julius Ctesar gave a tolerable account of these islands and of their treasures within the first century, calling them Britannia; nevertheless this Carthaginian manuscript so referred to by Avienus, might have been four or five hundred years old, and written before Caesar s time, in the early period of the Greeks and Phoenecians forming that colony. Though but little versed in Greek, we are led to conjecture that the above epithet CEstrymnides to be compounded of Oistros, menos, aides. Menos, signifying excitement, rage, or infuriation. The oides, being exchanged by elision to ides, as in Hesperides, and many others. Page 86, 1. 19,—dele among the Laplanders, also dele “ nose and fauces,” r. intestines, as in his original edition, 1794, Tom. 4, p. 23t>. Page 91, 1. 5,—Pallas has however given a figure of this supposed human Oestruss. but what does it prove to be, neither more nor less than the Oestrus Equi of my enumeration. The wings are similarly marked, but not so strongly, as in our more Southern individuals ; and this I also observed was the case in a considerable number of Danish Oestri Equini, procured from a herd of horses of this country, imported here about ten years since. 92, 1. 5,—ins. “ see dissertation,” t. i. fig. 40vafter “ describe.”