Neies and Comments 343 
vadicifica in Northumberland and Cumberland. Tvichopteryx 
fratercula is also recorded as a new Yorkshire coleopteron. 
A WONDERFUL SPIDER. 
In The Entomologist for August, appears the following 
information from the pen of Mr. W. Saunders :— The other 
morning . ... I felt a tickling sensation on my face, and, 
putting up my right hand to brush away the cause of irritation, 
I caught on my forefinger, a shimmering gauzy filament at the 
end of which swung a tiny spider. . . . I heid it up on a level 
with my head and the insect made one or two ineffectual 
attempts to reach my finger. Apparently realising then that 
this means of escape was hopeless, he swung inert for a few 
seconds, and then he suddenly shot out in a horizontal direction, 
spinning furiously as he went. This continued until he was 
six or nine inches from my finger, when another gauzy filament 
was rapidly dropped downwards at almost right angles to the 
first, attaching itself to a copy of the ‘Scotsman,’ . . . Who 
could then have had the heart to harm such a brilliant little 
logician.’ It seems to have been more than a logician, it was 
a magician. 
DISCOVERY.* 
Professor Gregory will understand that we wish to be com- 
plimentary when we say we have read his book from cover to 
cover, and have enjoyed it. It has the same inspiring effect 
as the famous Somme film, which most people have seen recently. 
Would that it were possible to place a copy of the book in the 
hands of every school boy and school girl. The result would 
certainly be greater than even Professor Gregory's proudest 
hopes. The volume shows that in all times the greatest 
scientific discoveries have been made with most unselfish 
motives ; not for personal gain, but for the love of science ; for 
the good of mankind. Yet the greatest discoveries, whereby 
the lives of untold thousands have been saved, have not 
brought their authors anything like the renown that becomes 
the victorious soldier or sailor. 
A POPULAR FALLACY. 
It is also demonstrated that the scientific man is a man 
of principles, a man essentially human, whose watchword is 
‘Truth. ‘ To the popular mind, a man of science is a callous 
necromancer who has cast himself off from communion with 
his fellows, and has thereby lost the throbbing and com- 
passionate heart of a full life: he is Faust, who has not yet 
made a bargain with Mephistopheles, and is therefore without 
ee 
* ‘Discovery : or the Spirit and Service of Science,’ by R. A. Gregory. 
Macmillan & Co., 1916, 340 pp., 5s. net. : 
1916 Nov. 1. 
