which he felt it his duty to preach somewhat indiscrimi- 

 nately in the later years of his life ultimately brought 

 about a partial severance between him and my father, 

 but his early death was undoubtedly a loss to science as 

 well as to those who had delighted in his companionship. 

 His papers, chiefly on foreign Arachnida, showed great 

 ability, and it was he who undertook so much of the 

 treatment of the Araneidea for the Eiologia Centrali- 

 Americana as my father could not complete by himself. 

 His own contribution to the Biologia was my father's 

 largest single work, and occupied a great deal of his 

 time from 1883 (when the first consignment of bottles 

 arrived) to i^oz. This work followed hard upon the 

 completion of the Spiders of Dorset, the two volumes of 

 which appeared respectively in 1879 and 1881, and at 

 once became the standard work on British Spiders, all 

 of which, whether found in Dorset or not, were included 

 in it. It was characteristic of my father's special 

 interest in his county that the species not found in the 

 county were relegated to an appendix. This caused 

 some inconvenience in the use of the book by those who 

 were not privileged to live in Dorset, and the mistake, 

 if it was one, was not repeated in his monographs on 

 the British Phalangidea (185)0) and Chernetidea (1891), 

 though these appeared originally in the Proceedings of the 

 Dorset Field Club, as did many of the shorter papers on 

 Arachnida^ which served to bring the Spiders of Dorset up 

 to date year by year. It was not until after the Spiders 



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