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



He was an enthusiastic musician, and was a well-known 

 figure, with his violin, at orchestral concerts in Dorchester 

 and Wey mouth. At his death he had been for many years 

 President of the Dorset Orchestral Association ; and he had 

 always tried to encourage a taste for the great music of the 

 classical composers of the continent, or of the finest English 

 writers of glees and madrigals. Not only town audiences, 

 but audiences in many villages also, were found to appreciate 

 good music at least as warmly as trumpery. For a great 

 number of years he was a constant performer with voice and 

 violin at village concerts in Bloxworth and the neighbourhood, 

 and took endless pains over practice and rehearsals. On 

 one occasion he varied music with drama. In 1885 some 

 ambitious spirits at Bere Regis gave a performance of " The 

 Rivals," and his energetic impersonation of Sir Anthony 

 Absolute cannot have been forgotten by those who witnessed 

 it. It was no mean service, to have helped and encouraged 

 wholesome entertainments in villages, where entertainments 

 of any land are but few, for so many years. 



He was a very loyal son of Dorset. His earliest venture 

 into print was an appeal (in the Dorset County Chronicle in 

 1855) to the people of Dorset to make the Dorchester Museum 

 worthy of the County ; he was one of the founders of the 

 Dorset Field Club at the first meeting at Sher borne in 1875, 

 and one of its most energetic members as long as his powers 

 lasted ; he was its Treasurer from 1882 to 1900, and remained 

 one of its Vice -Presidents until his death. He will be 

 well remembered as the organizer of many of the field- 

 meetings ; and with his long beard and white puggaree he 

 was always one of the most conspicuous figures at these 

 meetings, at which, in the absence of the Secretary, he 

 generally acted as whipper-in of the straggling pack. It 

 was characteristic of him that his chief work on British 

 Spiders should have taken shape as " The Spiders of Dorset" 

 and that species not found in the County should have been 

 banished to an appendix ; and equally characteristic, that 

 much of his best work should have been published in the 



