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Spider's Web, New Caledonia

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CONSUL LAYARD'S account of the spiders' webs of the Polynesian Arachnids (NATURE, vol. xx. p. 456) reminds one of the colonial enthusiasm of certain fair ladies in Mauritius seventy years ago, previous to the capture of that island by General Abercrombie.

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OLIVER, S. Spider's Web, New Caledonia. Nature 20, 554 (1879). https://doi.org/10.1038/020554a0

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