Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, 1836-1907 · Boston, CT : Hall and Locke · leaf 382
nce his explanation of the gradual development,through Natural Selection, of the spiders deceptiveappearance applies as well to all the cases of protectivedisguise which have been here enumerated. The capture is described as follows : — On June 25th, 1881, in the forest near the villageof Lampar,… … 352 A Book of Natural History of my eyes resting on a bird-excreta-marked leaf. Howstrange, I thought, it is that I have never got anotherspecimen of that curious spider I found in Java whichsimulated a patch just like this ! I plucked the leafby the petiole while so cogitating, and looked at it…
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