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northern spiders. Several of his early articles dealt with 
the habits of spiders and, even to the last, he loved to 
watch each autumn for the flying spiders. 
He gave to the Museum of Comparative Zoology the first 
set of the types of his descriptions, his private collection 
and library he willed to the writer. 
His bibliography is as follows: — 
The habits of spiders. American Nat., II, 476-481, 1868. 
The Ant-lion. American Nat. IV, 1871. 
Notes on spiders from caves in Kentucky, Virginia and 
Indiana. American Nat., IX, 278-281, 1875. 
(Notes and two plates) Hentz Spiders of the United States. 
Occ. Pap. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., II, 1875. 
Simon's Les Arachnides de France, Tome I, 1874. Ameri- 
can Nat., IX, 108-109, 1875. 
Spiders common to New England and Europe. Psyche, I, 
129-131, 1876. 
A comparison of the spiders of Europe and North America. 
Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., XIX, 68-72, 1877. 
Descriptions of tw T o new spiders from Colorado. Bull. 
U. S. Geol. Geog. Surv. Terr., Ill, 528-529, 1877. 
Cocoon making and egg-laying of spiders. Psyche, II, 
33-34, 1877. 
Oviposition in spiders. Psyche, II, 123-124, 1877. 
The structure and habits of spiders. 180 pp., S. E. Cas- 
sino, Salem, 1878. 
Life on the seashore, or animals of our coast and bays. 
143 pp. Naturalist Handy Series, Salem, 1880. 
Breeding habits of spiders. American Nat., XIV, 595, 
1880. 
(Mating of Xysticus). American Nat., XIV, 595, 1880. 
Spider webs. Bull. Essex Institute, IX, 67, 1881. 
New England spiders of the family Theridiidse. Trans. 
Connecticut Acad. Sci., VI, 1-86, 1882. 
The cobwebs of Uloborus. American Journ. Sci., (3) XXV, 
203-205, 1883. 
New England spiders of the family Epeiridse. Trans. Con- 
necticut Acad., VI, 295-342, 1884. 
