Curious Facts in the History of Insects; Including Spiders and Scorpions. / A Complete Collection of the Legends, Superstitions, Beliefs, and Ominous Signs Connected with Insects; Together with Their Uses in Medicine, Art, and as Food; and a Summary of Their Remarkable Injuries and Appearances.

by Frank Cowan

[828.] Med. Dict.

[829.] Geoffroy, Treat. on Subst. used in Physic, p. 383.

[830.] Twelve Years in China, p. 14.

[831.] Twelve Years in China, p. 14.

[832.] Ibid.

[833.] Ibid., p. 194.

[834.] Memoires of Robt. Houdin, p. 161.

[835.] Mag. of Nat. Hist., vi. 9.

[836.] Baird’s Encycl. of Nat. Sci. Shaw’s Zool., vi. 229.

[837.] Pinkerton’s Col. of Voy. and Trav., vii. 705.