. Proceedings - Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society. New & rare British Spiders By the Rev. O. PICKARD-CAMBRIDGE, , , &c, &c. Plate A.(Kead February 13th, 1889).. EARLY three years have passed since my lastcommunication to you on spiders. During thatperiod rheumatism and lumbago have very muchhindered the long-sustained stooping process soabsolutely essential to success in working out thespider population among moss and other herbage in swamps and such like situations. I have, however, done alittle myself, and have received much help from my sons, andespecially from my
. Proceedings - Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society. New & rare British Spiders By the Rev. O. PICKARD-CAMBRIDGE, , , &c, &c. Plate A.(Kead February 13th, 1889).. EARLY three years have passed since my lastcommunication to you on spiders. During thatperiod rheumatism and lumbago have very muchhindered the long-sustained stooping process soabsolutely essential to success in working out thespider population among moss and other herbage in swamps and such like situations. I have, however, done alittle myself, and have received much help from my sons, andespecially from my nephew, Frederick 0. P. Cambridge, whoseskilful pencil has been more than once employed to illustrateentomology in former volumes of our Proceedings. A newspider-student has also sprung up (not, I am sorry to say, in ourown county, though not far outside it) in Dr. Blackmore, ofSalisbury. From him I have received, among numerous otherspiders, two fine new additions to the British List—Prosthesimarustica (Sim) and Cailotespabidator (Sim). The former of these wasfound, though very rarely, in Dr. Blackmores own garden in Salis-bury ; the latter under pieces of rock and stone near
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