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Spiders (Araneidea, Plate 37) by Frederick DuCane Godman, 1879 umm al quwain University of Toronto campus buildingsArachnida Araneidea Pl. 37 (1879) by Frederick DuCane Godman captures the late Victorian fascination with cataloguing the natural world. Godman, an English naturalist and collector born in 1834, worked at the intersection of exploration and scholarship during a period when faithful, measured drawing was essential to scientific communication. This plate presents spiders from the order Araneae (then often styled Araneidea) in a clear specimen plate