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Remarkable Resemblance In Two Twin Brothers.
complaint of which he died , at the age of 30 , his brother was affected with the same complaint , but recovered by the greater abilities of his physician . When he heard of his brother ' s death he fainted away , and remained for some time without any signs of life ; he , however , revived , and lived for- many years after . '
Singular Instance Of A Capacity To Endure Abstinence And Hunger In A Spider.
SINGULAR INSTANCE OF A CAPACITY TO ENDURE ABSTINENCE AND HUNGER IN A SPIDER .
RELATED BY M . VAILLAS'T . HPHE time I-spent at the Cape was not lost to my studies and pursuits , I had not only been able , with a part of what I had brought with me from my journeys , to form an interesting collection ; bub scarcely a day elapsed without rambling into the country to
my procure other articles by wliich to enlarge it . Nothing came amiss to me : beetles , flies , butterflies , chrysalides , nests , eggs , quadrupeds , and birds of all kinds , had their value ; and all served , either to fill up a place in my cabinet , or as objects of study . At the house of Boers , too , there was a kind of menagerie , to which I frequently resorted , in order to make observations , and sometimes experiments . It
_ was by means of this menagerie , added to what my Own journies had enabled me to observe , that I succeeded in obtaining a knowledge of the food , propensities , habits , and duration of life , more or less protracted , of certain animals . Some of these observation ? , which are highly worthy the attention of naturalists , I shall publish hereafter . At present I mean to confine myself to a single experiment , which , not falling in with the thread of ' my narration , would be considered as foreign to it , and consequently can here only be inserted with propriety .
I had often remarked that spiders spread their webs in certain solitary and close places , to which it is very difficult for flies , and even for gnats , to penetrate ; and I concluded ' that ,, as these animals must long remain without food , they were capable of enduring considerable abstinence and hunger . To be assured of this circumstance , I took a large garden spider , which enclosed under lass bell
I a g , well fastened round the bottom with cement ; and in this situation I left it for ten months together . Notwithstanding this . deprivation of food , it appeared , during- the whole period , equally vigorous and alert ; and I remarked no ' other alteration than that its belly , which at the time of its imprisonment ' was the size of a nutdecreased insensibltill at last it
, y , was scarcely larger than the head of a pin . I then put under the bell another spider of the same kind . At 'first they kept at a distance from each other , and remained motion-; iess > but presently the meagre one , pressed by hunger , approached -
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Remarkable Resemblance In Two Twin Brothers.
complaint of which he died , at the age of 30 , his brother was affected with the same complaint , but recovered by the greater abilities of his physician . When he heard of his brother ' s death he fainted away , and remained for some time without any signs of life ; he , however , revived , and lived for- many years after . '
Singular Instance Of A Capacity To Endure Abstinence And Hunger In A Spider.
SINGULAR INSTANCE OF A CAPACITY TO ENDURE ABSTINENCE AND HUNGER IN A SPIDER .
RELATED BY M . VAILLAS'T . HPHE time I-spent at the Cape was not lost to my studies and pursuits , I had not only been able , with a part of what I had brought with me from my journeys , to form an interesting collection ; bub scarcely a day elapsed without rambling into the country to
my procure other articles by wliich to enlarge it . Nothing came amiss to me : beetles , flies , butterflies , chrysalides , nests , eggs , quadrupeds , and birds of all kinds , had their value ; and all served , either to fill up a place in my cabinet , or as objects of study . At the house of Boers , too , there was a kind of menagerie , to which I frequently resorted , in order to make observations , and sometimes experiments . It
_ was by means of this menagerie , added to what my Own journies had enabled me to observe , that I succeeded in obtaining a knowledge of the food , propensities , habits , and duration of life , more or less protracted , of certain animals . Some of these observation ? , which are highly worthy the attention of naturalists , I shall publish hereafter . At present I mean to confine myself to a single experiment , which , not falling in with the thread of ' my narration , would be considered as foreign to it , and consequently can here only be inserted with propriety .
I had often remarked that spiders spread their webs in certain solitary and close places , to which it is very difficult for flies , and even for gnats , to penetrate ; and I concluded ' that ,, as these animals must long remain without food , they were capable of enduring considerable abstinence and hunger . To be assured of this circumstance , I took a large garden spider , which enclosed under lass bell
I a g , well fastened round the bottom with cement ; and in this situation I left it for ten months together . Notwithstanding this . deprivation of food , it appeared , during- the whole period , equally vigorous and alert ; and I remarked no ' other alteration than that its belly , which at the time of its imprisonment ' was the size of a nutdecreased insensibltill at last it
, y , was scarcely larger than the head of a pin . I then put under the bell another spider of the same kind . At 'first they kept at a distance from each other , and remained motion-; iess > but presently the meagre one , pressed by hunger , approached -