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that of adding to the sum of knowledge no man can have ; wealth, 

 influence, position, all fade before it ; but we must die for it if our work 

 is to live after us." And thus he clearly recognized the difference 

 between posthumous fame and living notoriety. 



Frederick Octavius Pickard- Cambridge. 

 All his friends — and he had many — sincerely regret a personal 

 loss in the tragic death of the above naturalist, which occurred last 

 month at Wimbledon, in his forty-fourth year. He belonged to a well- 

 known Dorsetshire family, and was educated at Sherborne, and at 

 Exeter College, Oxford. It was as an arachnologist he was best known 

 to naturalists, a study he had enthusiastically followed under the 

 guidance and inspiration of his uncle, the Kev. Octavius Pickard- 

 Cambridge. But Spiders alone did not restrict the zoological interests 

 of our deceased friend. In these pages (1903, p. 429) he recorded his 

 discovery of the occurrence of the Giant Goby (Gobius capito) in the 

 rock-pools of Cornwall ; and he also possessed the soul of the angler. 

 He was enthusiastic in all his pursuits. Some two years ago, when 

 collecting British Dragonflies, we told him of a quiet pond on the 

 Surrey hills where a species could be obtained. On the following day 

 he secured the insect, and his bicycle travelled via Norwood on his 

 triumphant return to show the spoil. The news of his appointment at 

 the British Museum to succeed Mr. Pocock did not reach him before 

 he died. He was a man of wide social sympathies, and an advanced 

 thinker ; he was also a good naturalist, and a charming companion. 



