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

[1227.] James’s Med. Dict.

[1228.] Geoffroy’s Substances used in Med., p. 383.

[1229.] Moufet, Theatr. Insect., p. 237. Topsel’s Hist. of Beasts and Serpents, p. 1073.

[1230.] Nat. Hist., xxix. 27.

[1231.] Miscellanies, p. 138.

[1232.] Vide Hist. and Mem. de l’Acad. Royale des Sciences, ann. 1710; Dissert. by M. Bon, Sur l’utilité de la soye des Arraignées, 8vo. Also, Bancroft on Permanent Colors, i. 101; and Shaw’s Nat. Hist., vi. 481.

[1233.] New Amer. Cyclop.

[1234.] Voy. dans l’Amer. Merid., i. 212. K. and S. Introd., i. 337.

[1235.] Naturalist in Bermuda, p. 126.

[1236.] Atlantic Monthly, June, 1858, p. 92.