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The Art journal (1849)

London : George Virtue · leaf 151

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tantly on glandular parts, and thej^ draw up from the exposure ; but, before it passes from the alimentary canal the necessary elements of month, it receives a coating of saliva from the silk, which is, when in the sericteria, a very fluid matter, b shows the delivery-tubes the salivary glands, e… … before beginning to wind, and it is taken off the animal passes the thread of silk round with care by the operator, who scratches it off as such from the cocoon, and is not on^ and roimd, and backwards and forwards in oft' with a little instrument made for the much too thin, but probably much too…

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