﻿Octavius 
  Pickard- 
  Cambridge. 
  

  

  li 
  

  

  matter 
  on 
  which 
  help 
  was 
  needed; 
  he 
  had, 
  and 
  retained 
  to 
  his 
  death, 
  their 
  

   trust 
  and 
  affection. 
  . 
  . 
  . 
  They 
  came 
  to 
  him 
  naturally 
  in 
  any 
  trouble 
  or 
  

   difficulty 
  ; 
  he 
  told 
  them 
  faithfully 
  when 
  he 
  thought 
  they 
  were 
  wrong, 
  and 
  

   did 
  not 
  always 
  wait 
  to 
  be 
  asked 
  his 
  opinion. 
  . 
  . 
  . 
  When 
  one 
  looks 
  back 
  

   over 
  his 
  life 
  as 
  Hector 
  for 
  nearly 
  fifty 
  years, 
  and 
  the 
  longer 
  life, 
  winch 
  was 
  

   almost 
  all 
  passed 
  in 
  Bloxworth, 
  it 
  is 
  no 
  wonder 
  that 
  one 
  of 
  the 
  older 
  farm 
  

   labourers 
  — 
  a 
  man 
  not 
  much 
  given 
  to 
  expressing 
  emotion 
  — 
  should 
  have 
  said, 
  

   when 
  my 
  father 
  passed 
  away, 
  ' 
  There, 
  'tis 
  the 
  end 
  of 
  all 
  things 
  to 
  we.' 
  " 
  

  

  During 
  the 
  period 
  of 
  his 
  curacy 
  at 
  Bloxworth, 
  Pickard-Cambridge 
  went 
  

   abroad 
  twice 
  with 
  a 
  pupil. 
  Mr. 
  0. 
  Bradshaw, 
  spending 
  nearly 
  the 
  whole 
  of 
  

   1864 
  in 
  various 
  parts 
  of 
  the 
  Continent, 
  in 
  Egypt, 
  and 
  Corfu. 
  On 
  January 
  10, 
  

   1865, 
  they 
  started 
  again, 
  and, 
  after 
  nearly 
  three 
  months 
  in 
  Italy, 
  sailed 
  to 
  

   Alexandria 
  and 
  Jaffa 
  for 
  a 
  two-months' 
  tour 
  in 
  Palestine 
  and 
  Syria. 
  Then 
  

   Greece, 
  Austria, 
  Germany, 
  and 
  home 
  at 
  the 
  end 
  of 
  the 
  year 
  by 
  way 
  of 
  

   Holland 
  and 
  Belgium. 
  

  

  There 
  can 
  be 
  no 
  doubt 
  that 
  the 
  experiences 
  of 
  these 
  two 
  years 
  were 
  of 
  the 
  

   utmost 
  value 
  to 
  one 
  who 
  was 
  to 
  spend 
  the 
  rest 
  of 
  his 
  long 
  life 
  in 
  a 
  somewhat 
  

   remote 
  country 
  parish. 
  " 
  They 
  were 
  something 
  more 
  than 
  a 
  passing 
  phase 
  in 
  

   his 
  life. 
  He 
  never 
  forgot 
  the 
  fascination 
  of 
  foreign 
  scenery 
  and 
  architecture, 
  

   the 
  delight 
  and 
  freshness 
  of 
  collecting 
  exotic 
  creatures, 
  and 
  the 
  manifold 
  

   experiences 
  of 
  his 
  travels, 
  especially 
  in 
  Egypt 
  and 
  Syria. 
  He 
  used 
  to 
  speak 
  

   of 
  these 
  with 
  a 
  pleasure 
  which 
  seemed 
  always 
  alive, 
  and 
  his 
  travels 
  gave 
  a 
  

   reality 
  and 
  interest 
  to 
  his 
  life-long 
  correspondence 
  with 
  foreign 
  naturalists 
  

   and 
  his 
  continual 
  work 
  at 
  exotic 
  collections 
  sent 
  to 
  him 
  by 
  them 
  and 
  others." 
  

   His 
  diary, 
  begun 
  when 
  he 
  was 
  21, 
  and 
  kept 
  up 
  until 
  just 
  before 
  his 
  death, 
  

   gives 
  an 
  account 
  of 
  his 
  travels, 
  from 
  which 
  many 
  passages 
  of 
  great 
  interest, 
  

   often 
  brightened 
  by 
  flashes 
  of 
  an 
  incisive 
  humour, 
  are 
  reprinted 
  by 
  his 
  son. 
  

  

  From 
  the 
  above 
  brief 
  account 
  of 
  his 
  life 
  and 
  surroundings, 
  it 
  is 
  clear 
  that 
  

   Pickard-Cambridge 
  had 
  every 
  chance 
  of 
  developing 
  his 
  strong 
  innate 
  love 
  of 
  

   Natural 
  History. 
  Before 
  he 
  was 
  seven 
  he 
  had 
  captured 
  Colias 
  hyale, 
  a 
  

   butterfly 
  rarely 
  seen 
  in 
  this 
  country, 
  and, 
  in 
  doing 
  so, 
  had 
  probably 
  

   received 
  his 
  earliest 
  impulse. 
  His 
  first 
  published 
  observation, 
  on 
  an 
  almost 
  

   white 
  Willow 
  Wren, 
  appeared 
  in 
  the 
  ' 
  Zoologist 
  ' 
  for 
  1852. 
  Two 
  years 
  

   later, 
  accompanied 
  by 
  the 
  great 
  Entomologist, 
  Frederick 
  Bond, 
  he 
  paid 
  the 
  

   first 
  of 
  many 
  visits 
  to 
  the 
  New 
  Forest. 
  It 
  was 
  probably 
  in 
  this 
  year, 
  1854, 
  

   that 
  he 
  first 
  entered 
  upon 
  the 
  scientific 
  work 
  of 
  his 
  life, 
  his 
  interest 
  being- 
  

   stimulated 
  by 
  the 
  earlier 
  writings 
  of 
  John 
  Blackwall, 
  the 
  leading 
  authority 
  

   on 
  British 
  spiders. 
  These 
  publications 
  were 
  first 
  brought 
  to 
  his 
  notice 
  by 
  an 
  

   Entomological 
  friend, 
  K. 
  H. 
  Meade. 
  He 
  soon 
  entered 
  into 
  correspondence 
  

   with 
  Blackwall, 
  and, 
  in 
  1860, 
  visited 
  him 
  at 
  Llanrwst, 
  where 
  they 
  had 
  long 
  

   and 
  frequent 
  discussions 
  over 
  the 
  ' 
  Origin,' 
  which 
  had 
  recently 
  appeared. 
  

  

  Nineteen 
  years 
  later 
  I 
  made 
  the 
  same 
  pilgrimage, 
  and 
  well 
  remember 
  the 
  

   stimulating 
  enthusiasm 
  of 
  the 
  aged 
  naturalist. 
  Discussing 
  with 
  considerable 
  

   scepticism 
  the 
  belief 
  that 
  the 
  bite 
  of 
  certain 
  spiders 
  was 
  poisonous 
  to 
  man, 
  

   Blackwall 
  told 
  me 
  that 
  he 
  had 
  often 
  received 
  monstrous 
  tropical 
  species 
  with 
  

  

  