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



systematic Zoology that the University had ever received 

 by one gift. 



It is time to close this account of my father's life and 

 work, though of some aspects of it nothing has been 

 said of his strong antiquarian interests, especially in con- 

 nection with Roman or British remains in the County, and 

 with Church-architecture ; of his political activities, which 

 from time to time occupied no little of his energies ; of his 

 lectures at Public Schools and elsewhere on subjects in 

 Natural History, and of much beside. It was not until 

 about the turn of the century, when he was a year or two 

 over 70 years old, that he began to feel his age at all seriously. 

 Then began a series of attacks of illness, which greatly crippled 

 him, and at last confined him almost entirely to his Rectory, 

 though his hand and eye remained as keen as ever, and he 

 worked almost every day at the table in the window of his 

 " Den," sorting and describing spiders from many parts of the 

 world, and setting such insects as were sent to him or 

 imprudently visited his window, which was a perfect 

 insect-trap. From 1908 onwards he was unable to undertake 

 the services in his Church, though he attended to all parochial 

 business and saw his parishioners constantly. In 1910 a 

 heavy blow fell upon him in my mother's death, after a year 

 of painful illness ; but twice in 1912 and 1913 he was cheered 

 by having all his five sons round him. The years 1914 and 

 1915 brought a variety of minor troubles which told on him 

 a good deal, and during 1916 he began to fail more rapidly, and 

 at last resigned the attempt to keep up with the various kinds 

 of business which he had done with so much ease during most 

 of his life. On October 7th he visited his " Den " for the last 

 time, and on the 19th made the last entry in the Diary which 

 he had kept without a break nearly all his life. From this 

 time onwards he rapidly became more helpless, and on March 

 9th, 1917, passed peacefully away, in his 89th year. 



His was a good life to look back upon, full of keen and 

 varied interest. Until the last year or two he never seemed 

 to grow old in mind, but remained, as ever, enthusiastic, 



