Front matter

The Cambridge Manuals of Science and Literature

SPIDERS

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The Banana Spider, natural size, from a photograph by Mr James Adams.

SPIDERS

BY

CECIL WARBURTON, M.A.

Christ’s College Zoologist to the Royal Agricultural Society Cambridge: at the University Press 1912

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