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STRANGE DWELLINGS, 



Linnean Society. The experiments were made in 1856, and 

 Mr. Bell's remarks are as follow : — 



' No. I. Placed in an upright cyUndrical vessel of water, in 

 which was a rojotless plant of Stratioies, on the afternoon of 



I 



WATER SPIDER. 



November 14. By the morning it had constructed a very perfect 

 oval cell, filled with air, about the size of an acorn. In this it 

 has remained stationary up to the present time. 



