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pencil-sketches, chiefly of the churches of the country 

 round Hatch Beauchamp. 



He was already a keen naturalist, and his diary which 

 began in 1849 and was continued until within a few 

 months of his death contains at th : s period many 

 observations about Birds and Lepidoptera, both of which 

 he was collecting. (His first butterfly, a specimen of 

 Colt as Hyale, had been caught as early as 183?, and is 

 still in his collection.) His first communication to a 

 periodical dealing with Natural History was a note on 

 an almost white Willow Wren, in the Zoologist for 1871, 

 and from this time onwards such communications became 

 frequent. The year 1 8 54 was remarkable for the first of 

 a number of visits to the New Forest with Frederick 

 Bond, one of the great entomologists of the nineteenth 

 century, who henceforward was a frequent visitor at 

 Bloxworth. It was about the same time that his interest 

 was roused by the writings of Mr. Blackwall, and that he 

 seriously took up the study of Spiders and their allies, 

 though his first published writing on the subject did not 

 appear until 1859, a ^ so ' m tne Zoologist. But from this 

 time onwards such contributions appear almost every 

 year often several in a year until within three years 

 of his death, in the Zoologist, Entomologist, Unman 

 Society* s Journal and Transactions^ Annals and Magazine 

 of Natural History^ and Proceedings of the Zoological Society^ 

 and also (after the commencement of the series) in the 

 Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History Society and Anti- 



