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Winterbourne Tomson under his father. The change 

 was a welcome one, though he had worked well in his 

 first curacy, and was received with every sign of affec- 

 tion and friendship by his old parishioners when he 

 visited them a year or so later. 



In 18783 and again in 1861, he spent a month in 

 Scotland, devoting a good deal of time to entomology 

 and the collecting of Spiders; and on July 4, 1861, he 

 climbed Ben Nevis, which his diary describes as an 

 'awful grind'. (It is in fact a much more tedious 

 and tiring ascent than many a much higher moun- 

 tain in the Alps.) In April and May 1860 he visited 

 Wales, and stayed for a week at Llanrwst with Mr. John 

 Blackwall, the first authority on British Arachnida, 

 and a good general zoologist, with whom he had for 

 some time corresponded. Blackwall's British and Irish 

 Spiders^ of which the first Part was published in i86"i, 

 contains many records of my father's captures, and 

 they were in constant communication until Blackwall's 

 death in 1881, at the age of ninety-one. My father 

 had been introduced to Blackwall's earlier writings by 

 Mr. R. H. Meade, of Bradford another valued friend 

 and correspondent, and an authority on Diptera, as well 

 as a student of Spiders ; and he helped Blackwall in 

 preparing his great work for Press. In the brief memoir 

 of Blackwall which he contributed to the Entomologist for 

 July 1 88 1 (and which contains a very interesting account 

 of the history of Arachnology in the nineteenth century), 



