Saturday, September the 12th, 2009
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When the entomologist Harold Maxwell Lefroy—scourge of the house fly and founder of Rentokil—choked to death on a gas insecticide of his own invention, his last words were: “The little beggars got the best of me this time!”
Ian Pindar, reviewing Bugs And The Victorians by J F M Clark