VOL. XXII.] PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS. SQQ 



Other tube with paper, so that they might not get out, and yet have air enough. 

 The 14th of April I perceived that one of my spiders lay dead, and the other 

 very well and lively ; but on the 26th of the same month it began to flag in its 

 motion, and the next day it was dead also, and yet I could not see that one had 

 hurt the other ; whence I concluded, that these young spiders will live more 

 than two months, if it be cold weather, without eating. 



In the great glass-tube, from whence I had taken the above-mentioned two 

 spiders that had been hatched at the same time, there were still, on the 26th 

 of April, 20 young spiders alive, sitting altogether in the web, which they had 

 spun without once touching or running about the glass, because, as I suppose, 

 the glass was too cold for them ; and on the 22d of May there were but three 

 of them living, which I could not perceive to be grown much larger ; the rest 

 of them lay by as dead, but mostly devoured by the longest livers. 



In the second glass-tube, which I had carried about me a long time, the 

 young spiders in it did not live near so long as the others ; because, as I con- 

 ceive, that the warmth of my body caused them to perspire more, and conse- 

 quently to stand in need of their food sooner. 



Now I had in my desk the eggs of six distinct spiders, which I often viewed, 

 to know when the young spiders would come out ; and on the 20th of May I 

 observed the eggs to change colour a little ; on the 22d the young ones were 

 hatched, and lay so close to each other in the web, that they took up but little 

 more room than when they were in their shells, and I could not discover any 

 motion in them, only they that lay outermost stirred their legs a little. 



On the whole, in this animal, which to some people is so odious, I have dis- 

 covered as much perfection and hidden beauties as in any other ; for when I took 

 the fleshy muscles out of their legs, and viewed them through the microscope, 

 I was astonished at their transparency, and they seemed to be one body ; but 

 when I came to separate them, I found that they were composed of very long 

 particles, each consisting of so many folds or wrinkles, that the muscle might 

 be dilated or contracted, as occasion should require. 



Chartham News ; or an Account of some strange Bones dug up near Canterbury. 



W 272, p. 882. 

 Mr. John Somner, in Sept. 1 668, sinking a well at a new house of his in 

 Chartham, a village about 3 miles from Canterbury, towards x^shford, on a 

 shelving ground, or bank side, within 12 rods of the river, running from thence 

 to Canterbury, and so to Sandwich Haven; having dug about 17 feet deep, 

 through gravelly and chalky ground, and 2 feet into the springs, met there 

 with a parcel of strange bones, some whole, and others broken, with 4 teeth. 

 Bound and entire, but in a manner petrified ; each tooth weighing something 



