Octavius Pickard-Cambridge papers

Reverend Octavius PICKARD-CAMBRIDGE - papers on Opiliones

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Octavius PICKARD-CAMBRIDGE

Birthdate: 3 November 1828

Birthplace: Bloxworth-Rectory, Dorset, England.

Died: 9 March, 1917.

BIOGRAPHY: Born in Bloxworth-Rectory, Dorset, November 3, 1828. First he studied law, but in 1855 he entered University College, Durham, for his ordination. In 1860, he returned to Bloxworth as "vicar'' of his father whom he succeeded in 1868 as" rector ", that's where he remained until his death on March 9, 1917, at the age of 88 years. As a naturalist, he took care of almost all orders of animals but mostly birds and arachnids. He met Blackwall around 1854; year from which his interest in spiders grew up making him the highest authority on arachnids, in Britain. His early work on these animals appeared in 1853 and continued almost annually until 1914, he wrote his Spiders of Dorset valuable, several articles on British harvestmen and Chernètes, and many notes on the fauna of his country aranéologique , he studied a large number of collections of spiders from the most diverse countries around the world and published most of the Arachnids of Biologia Central Americana. The number of new species he named and described is considerable.

NECROLOGY: Pickard-Cambridge, A.W. (1918) Memoir of the reverend Octavius Pickard-Cambridge M.A., F.R.S. by his son Arhtur Wallace Pickard-Cambridge, M.A. Printed for private circulation, Oxford, 1918.

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Gonzalo Giribet (contributed PDF -- 1875c)
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Microsoft (provided PDF of necrology).
Jason Dunlop (allowed access to facilities in ZMB, Berlin - 1912a)
Hans-Ulrich Raake (helped me find titles, locate volumes, operate scan machine in ZMB, Berlin - ditto)
Ian S. Kury (sacrificed his leisure time to assist with the biblio-hunting in Berlin, 2009 - ditto)

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paper needed	Pickard-Cambridge, O. (1875a) Arachnida. In: The Encyclopaedia Britannica a dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and general literature. 9th edition, 2, J.M. Stoddart & Co., Philadelphia, pp. 271–299.
paper needed	Pickard-Cambridge, O. (1875b) List of Araneidea and Phalangidea collected from October 1871 to October 1874 in Berwickshire and Northumberland by Mr James Hardy. Proceedings of the Berwickshire Field Naturalists’ Society, 7, 307-323.
	Pickard-Cambridge, O. (1875c) On three new and curious forms of Arachnida. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, London, (series 4) 16, 383-390, pl. XIII.
	Pickard-Cambridge, O. (1890) Monograph of the British species of Phalangidea or harvest-men. Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Antiquarian Field Club, Sherborne/Dorchester, 11, 163-216.
	Pickard-Cambridge, O. (1897) British Arachnida observed and captured in 1896. Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Antiquarian Field Club, Sherborne/Dorchester, 18, 108–115.
	Pickard-Cambridge, O. (1906) On some new and rare British Arachnida. Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Antiquarian Field Club, Sherborne/Dorchester, 27, 72–92.
	Pickard-Cambridge, O. (1907) On new and rare British Arachnida. Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Antiquarian Field Club, Sherborne/Dorchester, 28, 121–148.
	Pickard-Cambridge, O. (1910) On British Arachnida noted and observed in 1909. Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Antiquarian Field Club, Sherborne/Dorchester, 31, 47–70.
	Pickard-Cambridge, O. (1911) On new and rare arachnids noted and observed in 1910. Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Antiquarian Field Club, Sherborne/Dorchester, 32, 33–54.
	Pickard-Cambridge, O. (1912a) A contribution towards the knowledge of the spiders and other arachnids of Switzerland. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1912, 393–405.
paper needed	Pickard-Cambridge, O. (1912b) Arachnida of Wiltshire. Araneidea and Phalangidea. The Wiltshire archaeological and natural history magazine, 37, 380–390.
	Pickard-Cambridge, O. (1914) On new and rare British arachnids noted and observed in 1913. Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Antiquarian Field Club, Sherborne/Dorchester, 35, 119–142.

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