spending member of the Zoological Society of London 

 in 1870, and afterwards a Fellow, and in 1874 he was 

 elected an Honorary Member of the New Zealand 

 Institute, in recognition of his accounts of New Zealand 

 spiders. He was one of the founders of the Dorset 

 Natural History and Antiquarian Field Club, being 

 present at the birth of the society in 1875 at the Digby 

 Hotel, Sherbornej he was Treasurer of the Club from 

 1881 to 1900, and Vice-President from 1883 until his 

 death. Down to the end of the nineteenth century he 

 was a very constant attendant at its meetings, the 

 organization of which very frequently fell to him, and, 

 with his long white beard and a white puggaree round 

 his clerical hat, he was a conspicuous figure, as he went 

 about acting the part of c whipper-in' to the straggling 

 pack of members. He was an Honorary Member of the 

 Hampshire Field Club and the Nottinghamshire Natura- 

 lists Society, and of the Dallas Historical Society in 

 Texas. His Fellowship of the Royal Society dated 

 from 1887; he was elected in the summer, and signed 

 the Roll at the meeting of the Society on November a^. 

 Unfortunately he was able to attend few meetings after- 

 wards j the distance of London from Bloxworth, the 

 number and variety of his occupations at home, and the 

 expense of educating a large family, all combined to pre- 

 vent him visiting London very often j but he valued the 

 honour of the Fellowship. 



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