publication. His own first published writing on the 

 subject was a paper in the Zoologist for 185^ on Arach- 

 nida taken chiefly in Dorset and Hampshire, and from 

 this time onwards down to 1914 no year passed without 

 the publication of some writing from his pen on this 

 his special subject, with the exception of the two years 

 1864. and 1865 when he was abroad. He very soon 

 became a recognized authority on the Arachnida^ and 

 corresponded largely with continental arachnologists. 

 The most brilliant of these, M. Eugene Simon, came 

 to England in June 1871, as a refugee from Paris, and it 

 was a great pleasure to my father to make his personal 

 acquaintance at Brighton, as he had already made that of 

 Dr. Ludwig Koch at Niirnberg in 1865. (He met 

 M. Simon again at the meeting of the British Associa- 

 tion at Cambridge in 1894.) Another highly valued 

 correspondent was Dr. T. Thorell, of Upsala, whose 

 knowlege of the Arachnida was equalled by his command 

 of almost every European language. From 1870 to 

 i88x my father compiled the sections on Arachnida and 

 Myriapoda for the Zoological Record, and his annual visits 

 to London for this purpose gave him the opportunity of 

 keeping in touch with the National Collection at the 

 British Museum. Unfortunately the authorities at the 

 Museum did not make the consultation of the collections 

 easy, and even expected my father to study the speci- 

 mens without taking them out of the bottles. Some 

 highly-placed persons treated him on more than one 



