The Life of the Spider

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{36} Or Bird Spiders, known also as the American Tarantula.--Translator's
Note.

{37} .059 inch.--Translator's Note.

{38} The Ichneumon-flies are very small insects which carry long
ovipositors, wherewith they lay their eggs in the eggs of other insects
and also, more especially, in caterpillars. Their parasitic larvae live
and develop at the expense of the egg or grub attacked, which degenerates
in consequence.--Translator's Note.

{39} One of the largest families of Beetles, darkish in colour and
shunning the light.--Translator's Note.

{40} The Iulus is one of the family of Myriapods, which includes
Centipedes, etc.--Translator's Note.

{41} A species of Land-snail.--Translator's Note.

{42} Jacques Bernouilli (1654-1705), professor of mathematics at the
University of Basel from 1687 to the year of his death. He improved the
differential calculus, solved the isoperimetrical problem and discovered
the properties of the logarithmic spiral.--Translator's Note.