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CONTENTS 

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Houses .............................................................................................................................. 154

Towns ............................................................................................................................... 155

Sewage Works.................................................................................................................. 160

Ants' Nests ....................................................................................................................... 162

Bee Hives.......................................................................................................................... 168

Termites' Nests................................................................................................................. 168

Processionary Caterpillars' Nests .................................................................................... 170

Birds' Nests ...................................................................................................................... 170

Badgers' Nests.................................................................................................................. 173

Rabbit Burrows................................................................................................................. 173

Squirrels' Nests ................................................................................................................ 173

Hedgehogs' Nests............................................................................................................. 174

Voles' Nests ..................................................................................................................... 174

Moles' Nests..................................................................................................................... 175

Other Spiders' Webs ........................................................................................................ 175

CHAPTER III. 

THE DISPERSAL OF SPIDERS .................................................................................................. 177

Land Bridges .................................................................................................................... 177

Transportation by Man ..................................................................................................... 180

Dispersal by Air................................................................................................................ 182

Guidance to Geographical History to be derived from a 

study of the Distribution of Spiders ........................................................................ 202

CHAPTER IV. 

THE SPIDER POPULATION....................................................................................................... 205

Appendix to Chap. IV: Method employed in calculating distances to be travelled by 

male spiders in search of females ........................................................................... 215

BIBLIOGRAPHY.......................................................................................................................... 218