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



papers on Spiders taken in Dorset and Hampshire, and a 

 List of Southport Spiders, " with remarks on uniformity of 

 use and meaning of words in Natural History " one of 

 those of matters of method which always had an interest for 

 his orderly mind. 



In 1860 he left Lancashire to become Curate of Bloxworth 

 and Winterbourne Tomson, under his father, and the light 

 work of the two villages gave him plenty of time for 

 entomology and for visits to Wales and Scotland, where he 

 collected both spiders and Lepidoptera energetically. One 

 of the results of his visit to Blackwall at Llanrwst in 1860 

 was that he undertook to see Blackwall's great work on 

 British and Irish Spiders through the Press, the author 

 having got into great difficulties over its publication. Black- 

 wall's work was a landmark in the study of the subject, and 

 my father's own terminology and descriptive methods were 

 for many years based on those of Blackwall, though he 

 gradually became independent of him, and came more closely 

 into touch with the leading continental Arachnolo gists. 

 After Blackwall's death the series of types which he had used 

 for his work came into my father's possession, and greatly 

 enhanced the value of his own collection. 



The years 1864 and 1865 were mainly passed in travel. 

 Several months were spent in Egypt and Corfu, and in 

 Austria (chiefly at Ischl) in 1864 ; and in 1865 my father 

 made a long tour in Palestine, visiting also various parts of 

 Greece, Asia Minor, and Italy, and returning home through 

 Austria (where again he spent many weeks), and through 

 Germany, where (at Nuremberg) he made the acquaintance 

 of Dr. Ludwig Koch, then one of the foremost Arachnologists 

 in the world. In all these countries he collected spiders and 

 insects, and in Egypt he and his party shot 139 species of 

 birds, many of them little known at the time. In Egypt 

 and in Palestine he obtained a number of new species of 

 Lepidoptera, which were described at his request by Zeller, 

 Lederer, and Stainton, as well as a great number of new 

 spiders, of which he published a full account a few years later. 



