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of spiders now combined under the genus Erigone, as 

 one in which new species were still, in all probability, 

 in process of formation, both in Europe and still more 

 clearly in North America, and urged the collection of 

 very long series of all species or supposed species which 

 are connected with one another by grades of varia- 

 tion so minute that no line can be drawn between 

 them. 



It need hardly be added that my father saw no incon- 

 sistency between the theory of evolution, on the lines 

 laid down by Darwin and Wallace, and the belief in the 

 peculiar spiritual nature of man. 



As an entomologist my father associated with most 

 of the great collectors of the third quarter of the nine 

 teenth century J. C. Dale, Frederick Smith, H. T. 

 Stainton, and, above all, with Frederick Bond. He also 

 knew well the professional collectors Sam Stevens and 

 Charles Turner, and his delightful paper on < Brocken- 

 hurst Revisited \ in vol. xxix of the Entomologist, gives 

 some amusing reminiscences of Turner. He paid more 

 attention to Lepidoptera than to any other order of 

 insects, and his collection of British species was as com- 

 plete as all but a very few private collections. Here, as 

 everywhere, his work was very thorough. He was no 

 mere collector of macros and showy species, and some- 

 times spoke with amusement of the c diurnal and macro- 

 lepidopterous frame of mind * of those whom he termed 

 c goodness-gracious naturalists ' ; and though for many 



