could keep in touch with, and perhaps contribute some- 

 thing to, the solution of the wider biological questions 

 which lie in the background of Natural History ; and 

 even the mere list-making which such study often 

 involves is not scientifically unprofitable. Accordingly, 

 when his nephew's death in 1905- left the compilers of 

 the Victoria County Histories with no one to draw up the 

 accounts of the Arachnida of each county, my father, 

 though seventy-seven years old, gladly undertook the 

 work, and revised or compiled the lists for a good many 

 counties before the publication of the series was sus- 

 pended. His latest publications were an article on 

 c Spiders ' in the Natural History of 'Bournemouth and Dis- 

 trict, and the last of many papers c On New and Rare 

 British Arachnid a * in the volume of the Dorset Field 

 Club for 1914. He wrote altogether (in addition to 

 reviews and larger works) about 130 descriptive or 

 faunistic papers, as well as many shorter notes on 

 spiders in various periodicals, and the new species 

 described by him number many hundreds. Spiders are 

 not a favourite subject for popular lectures, but my 

 father was occasionally invited to lecture, and enjoyed 

 doing so. He addressed audiences at Toynbee Hall (in 

 1890) and in several Public Schools. One such lecture, 

 delivered at Marlborough in 1887, was printed by the 

 Natural History Society of the College. He had a 

 number of show-cases of Arachnida of different orders 

 made up for such occasions j but he always wrote out 



