Excerpt from American Spiders and Their Spinningwork, Vol. 1: A Natural History of the Orbweaving Spiders of the United States With Special Regard to Their Industry and Habits The consideration of these topics has necessarily suggested the degree of intelligence and the variety and adaptation of methods shown by spi ders in their ordinary and special behavior. Thus have come into View the profound and interesting problems relating to animal mentalism. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.