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MANCHESTER. Literary and Philosophical Society, October 4.—J. Cosmo Melvill, President, in the chair.—The President referred to the loss sustained by the Society through the deaths of Mr. H. M. Ormerod, Dr. R. M. Pankhurst, Dr. James Rhodes, and Mr. John Wright, ordinary members; and of Prof. Ferdinand Cohn, Lord Playfair, and Mr. Osbert Salvin, F.R.S., honorary members.—Mr. H. W. Freston exhibited a male specimen of Asagena phaleratat, an extremely rare species of spider which by itself represents the genus Asagena, whose nearest congener is the genus Steatoda.
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Societies and Academies. Nature 58, 635–636 (1898). https://doi.org/10.1038/058635a0
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