Octavius Pickard-Cambridge

Octavius ​​Pickard - Cambridge ( born November 3, 1828 in Bloxworth, Dorset, † March 9, 1917 ) was a British pastor and zoologist.

Life and work

Pickard - Cambridge studied theology at the University of Durham and joined in 1868 succeeded his father as vicar in Bloxworth to.

He was interested in the birds, and finally, after a meeting with John Blackwall about 1854, the spiders. As he described a considerable number of spiders scientifically, he became the world's foremost authority in the Arachnologie. Among his descriptions were so known species of Atrax robustus.

In 1887 he became a member of the Royal Society.

Octavius ​​Pickard - Cambridge is the uncle of Frederick Octavius ​​Pickard - Cambridge, who was also known by the description of many species of spiders.