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Title: Hardwicke's science-gossip : an illustrated medium of interchange and gossip for students and lovers of nature
Year: 1868 (1860s)
Authors: Cooke, M. C. (Mordecai Cubitt), b. 1825 Taylor, J. E. (John Ellor), 1837-1895
Subjects: Science Natural history
Publisher: London : Robert Hardwicke
Contributing Library: MBLWHOI Library
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ighth segment it contracts into anarrow small intestine, and at the same point isjoined by four filiform biliary ducts. Lastly, we arriveat an oblong colon, which terminates in a shortrectum, closed by sphincters (fig. 57, h). I could have wished to say something about thenervous and muscular systems, both of which pre-sent many points of interest; and from the trans-parency of the tissues, and the absence of the fattylayer usually present in larvae, are displayed muchmore clearly than is usual. But I have alreadytrespassed too long upon your patience, and canonly express a hope that others may be prevailedupon to investigate the subject, and complete thecycle of development, one phase of which I haveattempted to paint. Hedgehog.—In the Gironde vipers abound, andthe hedgehog is the declared enemy of the reptile.Since so many hedgehogs have been destroyed,vipers have increased at a fearful rate.—Land andWater. S2 HARDWICKES SCIENCE-GOSSIP. (April 1, 1S6S. MORE GOSSIP ABOUT SPIDERS.
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Fig. 58. Tegenaria atrica, enlarged. ~;%yrY gossip on the present occasion is not about--■- so small a thing as the Theridion riparium,but about one of the largest, most powerful, andferocious of our indigenous spiders—the black, ordark-coloured, Tegenaria (Tegenaria atrica). But I would preface my remarks by informingmy readers that when naturalists speak of. ferocity,cruelty, &c, in the lower creatures, they simply useconvenient terms to describe the exhibition of cer-tain instincts which bear a resemblance to suchbad propensities in man. Do not, however, sup-pose, dear reader, that creatures described as cruelare really so. Spiders and other carnivora havebeen created for a special purpose; they have beenendowed with faculties and powers, and have beenfurnished with organs adapted for the pursuit, cap-ture, and destruction of the creatures upon whichthey prey; and it would manifestly be as impossiblefor a carnivorous animal to change its nature, andbecome a feeder upon vege

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