 ... these apterous insects should that day take such a wonderful aerial excursion, and why their webs should at once become so gross and material as to be considerably more weighty than air, and to descend with precipitation, is a matter beyond my skill....  The Natural History of Selborne - Page 318by Gilbert White - 1822Full view - About this book
 | William Bingley - Animal behavior - 1803 - 624 pages
...descend with precipitation, is a matter beyond my skill. If I might be allowed to hazard a supposition, I should imagine that those filmy threads^ when first...the rising dew, and so drawn up, spiders and all, 1 ya brisk evaporation, into the regions where clouds are formed: and if the spiders have a power of... | |
 | William Bingley - Animal behavior - 1805 - 622 pages
...descend with precipitation, is a matter beyond my skill. If I might be allowed to hazard a supposition, I should imagine that those filmy threads, when first...their webs in the air, as Dr. Lister says they have*, then, when they become heavier than the air, they must fall. " Every day in fine weather, in autumn... | |
 | William Kirby, William Spence - Entomology - 1818 - 552 pages
...becomes of this immense carpeting of web .there are different opinions. Mr. White conjectures jthat these threads, when first shot, might be entangled in the rising dew, and so drawn up, spklersand all, by a brisk evaporation, into the region where the clouds are formed a. But this seems... | |
 | William Kirby, William Spence - Entomology - 1823 - 556 pages
...becomes of this immense carpeting of web there are different opinions. Mr. White conjectures that these threads, when first shot, might be entangled in the...spiders and all, by a brisk evaporation, into the region where the clouds are formed a. But this seems almost as inadmissible as that of Hooke, before... | |
 | William Bingley - 1829 - 380 pages
...precipitation, is a matter beyond my skill to decide. If I might be allowed to hazard a supposition, I should imagine, that those filmy threads, when first...their webs in the air, as Dr. Lister says they have, VOL. IV. L then, when they become heavier than the air, they, must faD. ' • " Every day in fine weather,... | |
 | 1832 - 600 pages
...White a good deal: however, the following supposition is hazarded :—" I should imagine," says he, " that those filmy threads, when first shot, might be entangled in the rising dew, and so draw up spiders and all by a brisk evaporation, into the regions where clouds are formed ; and if the... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - English literature - 1832 - 680 pages
...White a good deal : however, the following supposition is hazarded : — " I should imagine," says he, "that those filmy threads, when first shot, might be entangled in the rising dew, and so draw up spiders and all by a brisk evaporation, into the regions where clouds are formed ; and if the... | |
 | Gilbert White - Natural history - 1837 - 680 pages
...descend with precipitation, is a matter beyond my skill. If I might be allowed to hazard a supposition, I should imagine that those filmy threads, when first...have a power of coiling and thickening their webs iu the air, as Dr. Lister says they have [see his Letters to Mr. Ray], then, when they were become... | |
 | William Kirby, William Spence - Entomology - 1843 - 452 pages
...becomes of this immense carpeting of web there are different opinions. Mr. White conjectures that these threads, when first shot, might be entangled in the...spiders and all, by a brisk evaporation, into the region where the clouds are formed. 1 But this seems almost as inadmissible as that of Hooke, before... | |
 | Arts - 1853 - 390 pages
...descend with precipitation, is a matter beyond my skill. If I might be allowed to hazard a supposition, I should imagine that those filmy threads, when first...clouds are formed ; and if the spiders have a power of coil* Gossamer has been long noticed both by poets and naturalists. It is now known to be produced... | |
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