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and often wearisome search among the moss itself. I cannot 

 explain exactly this method, as indeed I hardly yet understand it 

 myself; but, if any member of our Field Club were enthusiastic 

 enough to take up the subject, I would gladly get instructions for 

 him from Mr. Warburton, who, I know, would be most glad to 

 give them. 



Some interest also attaches to the occurrences (noted in the 

 subjoined List of Arachnida) of several, no doubt imported, 

 exotic Arachnids in greenhouses and hothouses at the Royal 

 Gardens at Kew and elsewhere. From such importations we 

 may possibly in course of time obtain by acclimatisation additions 

 to our indigenous (or rather pseudo-indigenous) Arachnids. We 

 have already two of such in the British list, Pholcus phalangioides, 

 Fuess, a great pest in my own house and premises, and Theridion 

 tepidariorum, C. L. Koch, an abundant spider in most green- 

 houses in England, and now and then found among adjoining 

 shrubs and in verandahs, &c. 



My best thanks are due to all those friends who have kindly 

 sent me Arachnids during the past year. Among them I would 

 especially mention Dr. A. Randell Jackson, of Chester ; Mr. W. 

 Falconer, of Slaithwaite, near Huddersfield ; Mr. Horace 

 Donisthorpe, 58, Kensington Mansions, London ; Mr. Denis R. 

 Pack-Beresford, Fenagh House, Bagenalstown, Ireland ; the 

 Rev. J. E. Hull, Ninebanks Vicarage, Northumberland ; Mr. W. 

 Ruskin Butterfield, Hastings, Sussex ; Mr. Robert Godfrey, 

 Edinburgh ; Mr. F. P. Smith, 15, Cloudesley Place, Islington; 

 Mr. T. Stainforth, The Municipal Museum, Hull ; and Mr. G. A. 

 Dunlop, Stockton Heath, Cheshire. 



For further information connected with the Arachnida in the 

 following list I would refer to " Spiders of Dorset," 1879-81, and 

 subsequent papers published by the Dorset Field Club in its 

 annual "Proceedings," 1882-1908, also to the "List of British 

 and Irish Spiders," published by Sime and Co., 1900, as also to 

 " Monographs on the British Phaiangidea or Harvest Men," 

 1890, and the British Chernetidea or "False Scorpions," 

 published in the Dorset Field Club, " Proceedings." Dr. A. R, 



