Note 921 — LETTER XLIV.
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Dr. Leach, from a communication of Sir Joseph Banks, has given a very interesting history of a spider which, having lost five of its legs, from a web-weaver had become a hunter; these legs it afterwards reproduced, though shorter than the others. Linn. Trans. xi. 393. Comp. N. Dict. d'Hist. Nat. ii. 282.