It is not surprising that flies big and little nuikc such a fuss when they beeoinfi entangled in the net. of spiders’ webs. Professor Inglis, of Cambridge, has stated that spiders’ filament has a tensile strength of 560 tons to the square inch, eight times as great as steel. A London train driver. Mr. W. Rttllork. lately took an honours degree in economies at London University.
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Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 29, 28 October 1932, Page 2
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