Excerpt from British Spiders: An Introduction to the Study of the Araneidae of Great Britain and IrelandThe present little work lays no claim to originality, but, being of a popular character, it seemed unnecessary to fill its margins with references to the sources from which various facts and statements have been drawn. The writer therefore here begs to acknowledge Mr. Black wall as the chief authority, his work on British Spiders having been most freely used. The writings of MM. Latreille, Simon, and several others, have also have been made use of without acknowledgment in the body of.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.