London. Jan. 18., The death has occurred, at the age of 70, of Major Ernest Edward Austen, the noted authority on bloodsucking flies and formerly Vice-President of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene.
He was a member of the Tsetse Fly and Locust Committees of the Economic Advisory Council and prepared a comprehensive exhibit of British blood-sucking flies in the hygiene Section of the Government. Havilion at the British Empire Exhibition in 1925.
Major Austen served in the Soulh African War and the European War.
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