It was not until about the turn of the century, when 

 he was a year or two over seventy, that he began to feel 

 his age at all seriously, though he had suffered during 

 most of his life from periodical attacks (sometimes severe) 

 of rheumatism and lumbago. His last entomological 

 walk in Bere Wood (our principal hunting ground) took 

 place, I think, in May 1901, and in the same year he 

 preached outside his own parish for the last time. In 

 the summer of 1901 he had an unusually long and 

 severe attack of rheumatism, and in 1903 he was almost 

 confined to the house for the first five or six months of 

 the year, during which his clerical duties were performed 

 by a brother naturalist, the Rev. H. S. Gorham. He 

 was however well enough to attend the consecration of 

 an addition to the churchyard on July 5, and within a 

 short time was able to resume his work among the 

 spiders in his c Den ', and to attend the practices of the 

 Orchestral Association at Dorchester. His last appear- 

 ance at the meetings of the Association was on May i^ 

 1905, when he played at a concert at Weymouth. In 

 the autumn of 1905* he was again laid aside for over two 

 months, and never wholly recovered, and on June a 8, 

 1908, he went to church for the last time ; the weak- 

 ness in the legs became serious, and from this time on- 

 wards, though he attended to all parochial business and 

 saw his parishioners constantly, the services in the 

 church were taken by the Rev. E. D. Benison, and 



