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started than stopped but is very liable to increase in volume as 

 it travels. If doubtful occurrences are noted they should be 

 liberally embellished with marks of interrogation. 



LITERATURE. 

 A few remarks upon modern araneological literature may be 

 of use, although in a work of this kind anything like a complete 

 bibliography would necessitate the expenditure of an unjustifiable 

 amount of space. The student should have access, if possible, 

 to the following works, all of which are in the English 

 language. 



1861. John Blackwall. A History of the Spiders of Great 



Britain and Ireland (Ray Society). The descriptions 

 are fairly useful and there are coloured illustrations 

 of 273 species. 



1879-82. Rev. Octavius Pickard-Cambridge. The Spiders of 

 Dorset (Dorset Field Club). The descriptions are 

 as a rule very complete and lucid. The illustra- 

 tions are, unfortunately, very few in number. 



Published at intervals by the same author numerous papers in 

 Proceedings of Dorset Field Club ; by Frederick O. 

 Pickard-Cambridge many valuable contributions to 

 Annals and Magazine of Natural History, etc., by Rev. 

 John E. Hull and Dr. G. H. Carpenter several 

 papers upon North of England and Irish spiders 

 respectively. 



1899-1902. An Introduction to British Spiders by the present 

 author, published in Science Gossip. A synonymic 

 list with many illustrations. The descriptions, 

 owing to limitation of space, are extremely short 

 and in many cases inadequate for purposes of 

 identification. 



1900. 



Rev. Octavius Pickard-Cambridge. A List of British 

 and Irish Spiders. Copies of this valuable list may 

 be obtained from Mr. Pickard-Cambridge, price 3s. 



(To be continued). 



