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  Obituary 
  Notices 
  of 
  Fellows 
  deceased. 
  

  

  the 
  most 
  sinister 
  reputation, 
  and 
  I 
  clearly 
  recall 
  his 
  pathetic 
  tone 
  of 
  dis- 
  

   appointment 
  as 
  he 
  said 
  : 
  — 
  

  

  " 
  They 
  might 
  have 
  had 
  cheek 
  or 
  lip, 
  but 
  not 
  one 
  of 
  them 
  would 
  bite 
  me 
  ' 
  " 
  

  

  Had 
  not 
  my 
  interests 
  been 
  already 
  fixed, 
  here 
  was 
  enthusiasm 
  at 
  the 
  age 
  

   of 
  89, 
  which 
  might 
  well 
  have 
  persuaded 
  me 
  to 
  be 
  an 
  arachnologist. 
  

  

  Except 
  for 
  two 
  notes 
  on 
  " 
  Abstinence 
  of 
  a 
  Spider," 
  in 
  the 
  ' 
  Zoologist 
  ' 
  for 
  

   1852 
  and 
  1853, 
  Pickard-Cambridge 
  did 
  not 
  publish 
  anything 
  upon 
  the 
  

   Arachnida 
  until 
  1859, 
  when 
  he 
  brought 
  out 
  " 
  Remarks 
  on 
  Arachnida, 
  taken 
  

   chiefly 
  in 
  Dorsetshire 
  and 
  Hampshire 
  " 
  (' 
  Zoologist,' 
  p. 
  6493). 
  From 
  this 
  

   time, 
  until 
  within 
  three 
  years 
  of 
  his 
  death, 
  he 
  published 
  papers 
  on 
  the 
  

   subject 
  nearly 
  every 
  year 
  — 
  often 
  several 
  in 
  a 
  year. 
  He 
  attained 
  the 
  highest 
  

   rank 
  as 
  an 
  arachnologist 
  with 
  such 
  rapidity 
  that 
  Blackwall 
  was 
  glad 
  to 
  avail 
  

   himself 
  of 
  his 
  help 
  in 
  the 
  publication, 
  between 
  1861 
  and 
  1864, 
  of 
  his 
  greatest 
  

   work, 
  1 
  British 
  and 
  Irish 
  Spiders 
  ' 
  (Ray 
  Society). 
  Pickard-Cambridge's 
  

   principal 
  monograph 
  was 
  the 
  volume 
  on 
  Arachnida 
  in 
  the 
  " 
  Biologia 
  

   Centrali-Americana," 
  a 
  very 
  serious 
  undertaking, 
  occupying 
  much 
  of 
  his- 
  

   time 
  between 
  1883 
  and 
  1902. 
  In 
  this, 
  and 
  some 
  of 
  his 
  other 
  works, 
  he 
  was 
  

   assisted 
  by 
  his 
  nephew, 
  F. 
  0. 
  Pickard-Cambridge, 
  a 
  very 
  able 
  naturalist 
  too 
  

   early 
  lost 
  to 
  science. 
  Of 
  even 
  greater 
  importance 
  in 
  helping 
  on 
  the 
  subject 
  

   were 
  his 
  series 
  of 
  standard 
  works 
  on 
  the 
  British 
  Arachnida 
  — 
  " 
  Spiders 
  of 
  

   Dorset" 
  (Pt. 
  I, 
  1879; 
  Pt. 
  II, 
  1881), 
  "British 
  Species 
  of 
  Phalangidea 
  ' 
  

   (1890), 
  "British 
  Species 
  of 
  Chernetidea" 
  (1892), 
  "List 
  of 
  British 
  and 
  Irish 
  

   Spiders 
  " 
  (1900), 
  and 
  many 
  shorter 
  papers, 
  bringing 
  the 
  first-named 
  up 
  to 
  

   date. 
  In 
  fact, 
  the 
  greater 
  part 
  of 
  his 
  work 
  appeared 
  in 
  the 
  form 
  of 
  a 
  

   succession 
  of 
  papers 
  in 
  the 
  ' 
  Zoologist,' 
  ' 
  Annals 
  and 
  Magazine 
  of 
  Natural 
  

   History,' 
  and 
  publications 
  of 
  the 
  Linnean 
  and 
  Zoological 
  Socities, 
  and 
  the 
  

   Dorset 
  Natural 
  History 
  and 
  Antiquarian 
  Field 
  Club. 
  A 
  complete 
  list 
  of 
  his 
  

   publications 
  occupies 
  seventeen 
  pages 
  of 
  his 
  son's 
  memoir, 
  and 
  of 
  these, 
  

   eleven 
  deal 
  with 
  the 
  Arachnida. 
  

  

  He 
  was 
  elected 
  F.RS. 
  in 
  1887. 
  

  

  His 
  collection 
  of 
  Arachnida, 
  and 
  equally 
  splendid 
  library, 
  rich 
  in 
  

   manuscript 
  notes, 
  he 
  bequeathed 
  to 
  the 
  University 
  of 
  Oxford. 
  The 
  

   specimens, 
  which 
  include 
  the 
  Blackwall 
  series, 
  now 
  rest 
  in 
  the 
  Hope 
  Depart- 
  

   ment, 
  upon 
  the 
  shelves 
  prepared 
  for 
  them 
  in 
  the 
  " 
  Den 
  " 
  at 
  Bloxworth 
  

   in 
  1884. 
  

  

  With 
  all 
  his 
  activity 
  in 
  Arachnology, 
  Pickard-Cambridge 
  always 
  retained 
  

   a 
  keen 
  interest 
  in 
  other 
  branches 
  of 
  Natural 
  History, 
  as 
  the 
  list 
  of 
  his 
  

   recorded 
  observations, 
  especially 
  upon 
  birds 
  and 
  Lepidoptera, 
  abundantly 
  

   proves. 
  Furthermore, 
  his 
  note-books 
  contain 
  a 
  store 
  of 
  observations 
  on 
  

   birds, 
  from 
  which 
  it 
  is 
  hoped 
  that 
  a 
  selection 
  may 
  be 
  published 
  at 
  some 
  

   future 
  time. 
  

  

  It 
  has 
  already 
  been 
  .said 
  that 
  he 
  was 
  from 
  the 
  very 
  first 
  in 
  sympathy 
  with 
  

   the 
  views 
  of 
  Charles 
  Darwin 
  on 
  the 
  origin 
  of 
  species 
  by 
  Natural 
  Selection. 
  

   He 
  differed 
  from 
  Darwin, 
  and 
  agreed 
  with 
  Wallace's 
  later 
  opinions 
  on 
  the 
  

   theory 
  of 
  Sexual 
  Selection, 
  believing, 
  as 
  he 
  wrote 
  in 
  1869, 
  that 
  there 
  is 
  

  

  