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Octavius Pickard-Cambridge

1828–1917

Clergyman and zoologist. Ordained deacon, 1858; priest, 1859. Succeeded his father as rector of Bloxworth, Dorset, 1860. Travelled in Europe and the Middle East in 1864 and 1865 and collected Lepidoptera. An expert on spiders, on which he published numerous papers and monographs. FRS 1887.

Sources

Pickard-Cambridge 1918

Proceedings of the Royal Society series B, 91 (1920): xlix–liii

Bibliography

Pickard-Cambridge, Arthur Wallace. 1918. Memoir of the Reverend Octavius Pickard-Cambridge. Oxford: printed for private circulation.

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