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THIS very pleasant essay will reveal to many readers details of the spider‘s life with which they were previously unacquainted. After an introduction which deals with some medieval opinions about spiders, Dr. Bristowe describes many striking devices by which these animals feed and protect themselves, and some remarkable examples of their conjugal and parental habits. He writes chiefly of the spectacular and the quaint ; but, avoiding mere ‘wonder-mongering', succeeds in emphasizing the diversity of the ways in which spiders have chosen, or been driven, to livé.
A Book of Spiders
By Dr. W. S. Bristowe. (King Penguin Books, K.35.) Pp. 34 + 24 plates. (Harmondsworth and New York: Penguin Books, Ltd., 1947.) 2s. net.
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S., T. A Book of Spiders. Nature 161, 706 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/161706d0
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