The Minor Horrors of War

by Sir A. E. Shipley

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THE MINOR HORRORS
OF WAR

Photograph of enlarged model of the house-fly (Musca domestica) in the American Museum of Natural History, New York. (From Gordon Hewitt.) P. 57.

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THE MINOR HORRORS
OF WAR

BY

A. E. SHIPLEY, Sc.D.

Hon.Sc.D. Princeton, F.R.S.

MASTER OF CHRIST’S COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE, AND READER IN ZOOLOGY
IN THE UNIVERSITY

ILLUSTRATED

LONDON

SMITH, ELDER & CO., 15 WATERLOO PLACE

1915

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HENRICO ARTHURO ADEANE MALLET

ET

HENRICO ANTONIO PATRICIO DISNEY

ALTERI MARI AERE ALTERI

UTRIQUE FIDELISSIME

PATRIAM TUTANTI