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FEW, whatever their nationality, who have been especially interested in spiders during the last forty years have failed to make the pilgrimage to Bloxworth, where the Rev. O. Pickard Cambridge, who died on March 9, had been rector since 1868, and to enjoy the delightfully informal hospitality of the Rectory. The famous “den” was no doubt their first objective, but those who were privileged to walk with their host in the surrounding country must have realised that they were in the company of a born naturalist of the widest sympathies, keenly observant, and on the friendliest terms with every living thing—beast, bird, insect, or plant—encountered by the way. There can have been few naturalists of equal calibre less revealed by their published work. This in his case was almost exclusively systematic, and was concerned for the most part with a single Arachnid order, the Araneina. It is true that he was selected to write the article “Arachnida” for the ninth edition of the “Encyclopædia Britannica” (1875); that he published useful little monographs on the British Phalangids and Pseudoscorpions (1890 and 1892); and that he occasionally described a tick or a Tartarid; but these were excursions, and through a long series of years his leisure was devoted. mainly to the identification and description of spiders.
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Rev. O. Pickard-Cambridge, F.R.S. . Nature 99, 88 (1917). https://doi.org/10.1038/099088a0
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