xlii. IN MEMORIAM REV. O. PICK ARD- CAMBRIDGE. 



xv. xxxiii.). While learning Latin and Greek from Mr. 

 Barnes, he was also learning the violin from Mr. Sidney 

 Smith, and his fondness for music outlasted his taste for the 

 classics ; but at one time he must have read and enjoyed a 

 good deal of Virgil and Horace, and to the end of his life he 

 would sometimes bring in an apt quotation from them. 

 Apart from these studies, he lived the usual life of the son 

 of a country-house, enjoying plenty of shooting, and beginning 

 the formation of his fine collection of stuffed birds, which 

 in time included many rare species, but was unfortunately 

 allowed to perish through the carelessness of the managers 

 of an exhibition to which he lent it. He was also in these 

 days a keen beekeeper and gardener. 



In 1849 he went to London to study for the Bar; but neither 

 the work nor the life in London suited him, and after two 

 years he gave up the study. In 1855 he entered University 

 College, Durham, where he took the degrees of B.A. in 1858, 

 and M.A. in 1859. At Durham he entered fully into the life 

 of the University ; we find him acting as steward at steeple- 

 chases, as President of the Choral Society of his College (he 

 had a fine voice of wide range), and as the donor of a challenge 

 cup to his College Boat Club. In 1858 he was ordained 

 Deacon, and in 1859 Priest, by the Bishop of Chester, and 

 for two years held the curacy of Scarisbrick in Lancashire, 

 residing at Southport. He was already a keen naturalist. 

 His early pursuits were mostly ornithological ; but his 

 entomological career began with the capture of Colias Hyale 

 in 1835, and about the middle of the " fifties " he was attracted 

 to the study of the Arachnida by the writings of John 

 Blackwall, to whom he was introduced by Mr. R. H. Meade, 

 of Bradford, then a well-known naturalist. He was keenly 

 interested in the problems which Darwin attempted to solve 

 in the Origin of Species, and he welcomed Darwin's theories, 

 and thereby got into bad odour with some of his brother 

 clergy in Lancashire, who preferred denouncing Darwin to 

 reading him. It was while he was in Lancashire that his 

 first published writings on Spiders appeared, in the form of 



