American Spiders and Their Spinningwork, Vol. 3

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Excerpt from American Spiders and Their Spinningwork, Vol. 3: A Natural History of the Orbweaving Spiders of the United States, With Special Regard to Their Industry and Habits With profound satisfaction the author gives to the scientific public the third and last volume of a work which has engaged his thoughts for more than twenty years. That he has been permitted to finish a labor Finished pj-QiQggi throughout so great a period, and wrought upon amidst the many duties and burdens of a busy professional career, excites earnest gratitude. The fear that he might not finish his self imposed task, and thus leave an incomplete work, has caused sore anxiety, especially when, at sundry times, more or less serious illness has commanded pause. Happily this apprehension is now dismissed, and the duty at last ended is herewith submitted to the judgment of fellow workers in and lovers of Natural History. In the first part of the volume six chapters are taken to consider various natural habits and physiological problems for which there was no space in the two previous volumes. These topics are in the line of those Scope studies in CEcology to which the author has heretofore especially, given his attention. In addition thereto, and forming indeed the bulk of this volume, the second part thereof contains descriptions of many indigenous species of Orbweavers, illustrated by thirty lithographic plates, colored by hand from Nature. Most of these plates are of Orbweavers, the group to which the author has given special systematic study. But two plates are added, without descriptions attached thereto, of representative species of the other aranead groups, especially of those species whose habits have been presented in the foregoing volumes. This descriptive work has been thought necessary to complete studies which avowedly chiefly concerned habits and industry. The general forms, colors, and proportions of spiders as they present themselves to an observers eye in Nature are important to the accurate understanding of their habits. One cannot appreciate in full the role which these creatures have to play in Nature until he have a just conception of how they look in the midst of the scenes wherein their life energies are spent. For this reason it formed part of the authors original purpose to present the subjects of his study as they appear in natural site, that his readers may have acquaintance not only with their life history but with themselves. Moreover, in studying the habits of spiders it has been necessary to identify the species, and in many cases to describe them. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.