[KangarooJacqui]

I've seen this study, or something very much like it, before. When was it published? Ages ago, I believe.

[primeval patriot]

Spider web images originally appeared in A Spider's Web by Peter N. Witt, Charles F. Reed and David B. Peakall. Copyright 1968 by Springer-Verlag.

1998

Dr. Peter N. Witt

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) -- Dr. Peter N. Witt, widely known for his research
involving psychoactive drugs and spiders, died Tuesday. He was 80.

Witt was born in Berlin and educated in Germany and Austria. While studying
medicine during World War II, he joined an underground group of doctors who
treated civilian casualties of the Allied bombing campaigns on German cities.

After the war he moved to Switzerland, where a Life magazine article drew the
world's attention to his work involving spiders. Witt had discovered that
psychoactive drugs such as LSD, psilocybin (psychedelic mushrooms) and
marijuana caused changes in the webs of a particular arachnid, the orb spider.

Witt was named executive director of the North Carolina Foundation of Mental
Health Research in 1966 and was director of research for the State Department
of Mental Health.

[EEDUDE]

"I've seen this study, or something very much like it, before. When was it published? Ages ago, I believe."


Yep. Done by one of my classmates in high school back in 1972 for a Science Fair project.