500 THE ZOOLOGIST. 
of the work. English readers, therefore, who do not, like Mr. 
Meldola, possess these qualifications, will feel grateful to him for 
so reliable and well illustrated an edition. 
The Spiders of Dorset; with an Appendix containing short 
Descriptions of those British Species not yet found in Dorset- 
shire. By the Rev. Ocravius Pickarp Campringg, M.A., 
C.M.Z.S. Edited by Professor James Buckman, F.G.S., 
F.L.S. Vol. II. 8vo, pp. 236—625. Sherborne: L. H. 
Ruegg. 1881. 
AuTHouGH professedly dealing only with the Spiders which 
have been met with in the county in which the author resides, 
this is in fact a monograph of the British Arachnide; for about 
two-thirds of the known British species have been found in 
Dorsetshire, and the remaining species are now included in an 
Appendix to the second and concluding part of the work lately 
issued. We have thus a very complete handbook to the study of 
a subject which has hitherto had but few votaries, but to which 
many more doubtless will now turn their attention. 
In our notice of the first volume of this work (Zool. 1879, 
p. 470), we directed attention to the excellent Introduction which 
it contains, in which the author, after pointing out the difference 
between Spiders and Insects, describes their external and internal 
structure, their habits and economy, their snares and mode of 
entrapping their prey. In the second volume we find some 
“additional remarks on the senses, habits, and economy of 
Spiders,” in which the general reader will find more to interest 
him than he will in the scientific diagnoses of species, which 
occupy the bulk of the work. 
“Spiders,” says Mr. Cambridge, ‘undoubtedly possess the 
sense of sight in a very strong degree; but within what limits of 
distance, or with what magnifying power, we have very little proof, 
either from observation or anatomy. It is probable that many 
Spiders see best with a diminished light, and different powers of 
vision are attributed to the different eyes, although this has'not 
been as yet completely proved.” 
The sense of touch, or feeling, is no doubt much assisted by 
the hairy armature of the legs, palpi, or other parts. Mr. Cam- 
bridge thinks it is also probably through these hairs that the sense 
