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the descriptions of species in Moggridge's Harvesting 

 Ants and Trapdoor Spiders (1873) and in the supplement 

 published a year later the account of the spiders taken 

 in the course of the second mission to Yarkand (pub- 

 lished in 1885"); and the article c Arachnida' in the 

 ninth edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica. But the 

 greater part of his published work took the form of 

 papers published at first in the Zoologist, and occasion- 

 ally in the Transactions of the LUnnean Society r , but mainly 

 in the Annals and Magazine of Natural History, the Pro- 

 ceedings of the Zoological Society (in which the majority of 

 these papers were issued), and the "Proceedings of the 

 Dorset Natural History and Antiquarian Field Club. 

 Almost without exception they were illustrated by the 

 clear and accurate drawings which were so useful a 

 feature in his work. Occasionally he reviewed the 

 work of other arachnologists in Nature, and he some- 

 times contributed accounts of the local spider-fauna to 

 the Proceedings of the Natural History Societies of other 

 counties. He had a great belief in the value of thorough 

 work in definite districts, and always liked to have local 

 collections to describe. His experience at Bloxworth 

 justified this. Few districts can ever have been so 

 thoroughly worked, whether for Spiders or Lepidoptera, 

 and yet surprises were always forthcoming. Moreover, 

 apart from the perpetual interest of obtaining fresh 

 species, he felt that it was by getting to know everything 

 about a particular district and its fauna that a naturalist 



