IN MEMORIAM REV. O. PICK ARD -CAMBRIDGE, xlvii. 



Proceedings of the Club. I remember that, when I and 

 my brothers were boys, we learned to regard the capture of a 

 species " new to Dorset " as an event of almost as great 

 importance as the discovery of one " new to Britain " or " new 

 to science. " Quite apart from his personal loyalty, he believed 

 strongly in the thorough working of definite areas by collectors; 

 and all through his life, but especially in his late years, when 

 he was debarred from active collecting, he was always ready 

 to help in working out local lists of species from whatever 

 part of the country ; and many " County Histories, " and 

 " County Natural Histories, " contain careful contributions 

 from his pen. 



He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1887, and 

 was, of course, a member or honorary member of many other 

 scientific societies at home and abroad. His principal work 

 lay always in the study of the Arachnida, upon which he was 

 for many years one of the chief authorities in the world ; 

 probably only two or three others now living can claim the 

 same rank. Of these the foremost, Mons. Eugene Simon, of 

 Paris, came to England as a refugee after the taking of Paris 

 in the Franco-Prussian War, and, after meeting my father 

 then, maintained a constant friendship and correspondence 

 with him afterwards. My father's collection of Spiders 

 grew rapidly with his own collecting and the large contribu- 

 tions made to it by other collectors in all parts of the world. 

 At his death it was contained in about 5,000 bottles of all 

 sizes many of them holding from two to twenty separate 

 tubes of specimens in spirit ; and it included the type- 

 specimens of about 1,000 species, of which 800 or more had 

 been described as new by himself. His principal work, apart 

 from the Spiders of Dorset, was his large contribution to 

 the Biologia Centrali- Americana, which occupied much of 

 his time from 1883 to 1902. Among other works of some 

 extent were the descriptions of species on Moggridge's 

 Harvesting Ants and Trapdoor Spiders (1873-4), the 

 article Arachnida in the ninth edition of the Encyclopaedia 

 Britannica (1875), and the account of the Spiders taken in 



