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Descriptions of Several European and North-African Spiders A Collection of the Arachnological Writings of Nicolas Marcellus Hentz, M.D.

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IT is a somewhat singular coincidence that the two works at the head of this article should have been published just about the same time. We shall endeavour briefly to show the value and bearing of each.

Descriptions of Several European and North-African Spiders.

By T. Thorell. Kongl. Svenska Vetenskaps. Akademiens Handlingar, Bandet 13, n. o. 5, pp. 1–203. (Stockholm: Norstedt and Söner, 1875.)

A Collection of the Arachnological Writings of Nicolas Marcellus Hentz, M.D.

Edited by Edward Burgess. With Notes and Descriptions by James H. Emerton. Forming No. II. of Occasional Papers of the Boston Society of Natural History, pp. 1–171, Pl. 1–21. (Boston: U.S.A., 1875.)

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C., O. Descriptions of Several European and North-African Spiders A Collection of the Arachnological Writings of Nicolas Marcellus Hentz, M.D. . Nature 13, 281–283 (1876). https://doi.org/10.1038/013281a0

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