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BY the death, lately announced, of MR. W. J. RAINBOW, the Australian Museum of Sydney, New South Wales, has lost the services of an entomologist who for twenty-four years laboured with assiduity and success to make the collection of insects and Arachnida in that institution worthy of a great colony, and has thereby laid all students of those classes under a lasting obligation. Mr. Rainbow's published works include treatises on certain groups of Lepidoptera and Diptera; but his main attention was given to the study, and especially the life-history, of spiders and scorpions. His papers on Arachnida are sixty-seven in number, one of the latest being devoted to a description and classification of the Araneidae brought from Macquarie Island by the expedition under Sir Douglas Mawson.
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[Obituaries]. Nature 105, 208 (1920). https://doi.org/10.1038/105208c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/105208c0