. American spiders and their spinningwork. A natural history of the orbweaving spiders of the United States, with special regard to their industry and habits . HIS FELLOW MEN WHOSE FAFfH IN THE UNSEEN NEVER PREFACE. The studies whose results are here given have been prosecutedthroughout the last sixteen years. I have largely limited my investiga-tions to the habits and industry of spiders, as the matters which seemedmost important at this stage of scientific knowledge. None but the field naturalist can fully know and appreciate the diffi-culties of my task. To these ordinary obstacl
. American spiders and their spinningwork. A natural history of the orbweaving spiders of the United States, with special regard to their industry and habits . HIS FELLOW MEN WHOSE FAFfH IN THE UNSEEN NEVER PREFACE. The studies whose results are here given have been prosecutedthroughout the last sixteen years. I have largely limited my investiga-tions to the habits and industry of spiders, as the matters which seemedmost important at this stage of scientific knowledge. None but the field naturalist can fully know and appreciate the diffi-culties of my task. To these ordinary obstacles have been added specialhindrances of my own. The cabinet or laboratory student, withA Field |^jg pinned and alcoholic specimens, is largely independent of • t ^^^ outward conditions; but he who studies nature as a living thingist s Diflfl- . , „ , 1 TT X 1 • ? W culties ^^ ^^ servant of seasons, liours, moods. He must live amidst the life which he would see, and seize the opportunities as theycome, or lose his venture for that season or year, or perhaps wholly. Theduties of nay calling in a large city have held me rigorously away fromthe open country except during two months of the year. Summer vaca
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