[From tlie Am. Jour. Science and Arts, xxi, 99.] 



Art. XIII. On North American Spiders. By N'. M. 

 Hentz, Principal of the Female Academy at Covington, 

 Kentucky, and late Professor of Modern Languages in the 

 University of North Carolina. 



letter to the editor. 



Amherst College, August 22, 1831. 

 Professor Silliman : 



Sir — Some time since I addressed a request to Nicholas 

 M. Hentz, Esq., then Professor of Modern Languages in the 

 University of North Carolina, and now Principal of the Fe- 

 male Seminary in Covington, Kentucky ; that he would furnish 

 me with a list of the Arane'ides [lOO] found in Massachu- 

 setts ; as I wished, in the execution of a commission from the 

 government, to obtain as complete a zoological catalogue for 

 the State as was practicable. He not only complied with my 

 request, but sent so full a view of North American Spiders, 

 with so many valuable notes, that I immediately requested 

 and obtained permission to send the whole for insertion in your 

 Journal. If your views of the value of the paper correspond 

 with my own, I shall hope you will give it a place in the next 

 number. With much respect, 



Edward Hitchcock. 



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