July 1898] OBITUARIES 63 



the conclusions are by no means accepted by those who have worked 

 over the same ground. Dr Hurst was a man of wide reading, a keen 

 controversialist, and a staunch friend of those few who knew him 

 intimately. W. E. H. 



OSBEET SALVIN 



Born 1835. Died 1st June 1898 



We deeply regret to record the death of this amiable and kindly man, 

 this accomplished ornithologist and entomologist, who has done so 

 much for zoological science. Mr Salvin passed away peacefully in 

 his sleep. He had known for years that his heart was in so weak a 

 state that life was extremely uncertain ; but this in no way dis- 

 couraged or dismayed him. 



Mr Salvin was the second son of the architect Anthony Salvin, 

 and was born in 1835. He was a Westminster boy, passing to 

 Trinity Hall, Cambridge, graduating in 1857. On taking his degree 

 he went to Tunis and Eastern Algeria on a natural history expedition 

 in company with Mr W. H. Simpson (afterwards Hudleston) and Mr 

 (now Canon) Tristram. They were away five months, and on the 

 return of the party, in the autumn of the same year, Salvin pro- 

 ceeded to Guatemala where, chiefly in company with the late G. V. 

 Skinner, the orchid hunter, he stayed until the middle of 1858, 

 returning again to Central America about twelve months later. In 

 186 J, Salvin again went to Central America, accompanied by F. Du 

 Cane Godman, to continue his explorations, but returned home in 

 18G3. Marrying in 1865, he, with his wife, undertook a fourth trip 

 to I lentral America. In 187-4 he accepted the first Strickland curator- 

 ship in the university of Cambridge, and filled the office until 1883, 

 when on the death of his father, he succeeded to Hawksfold, near 

 Haslemere. About this time he threw all his energies into the 

 " Biologia Centrali-Americana," a work conceived by his friend and 

 colleague Du Cane Godman and himself, and now having reached 

 many volumes. This " Biologia " was schemed to be a complete 

 natural history of all the countries between Mexico and the Isthmus 

 of Panama, and is remarkable not only for the wealth of material it 

 places at the disposal of the zoologists, but for the regularity of issue, 

 and the care with which details of publication and other matters are 

 considered. Salvin edited the third series of The Ibis, of which he 

 was one of the founders, brought out a " Catalogue of the Strickland 

 Collection " in the Cambridge Museum, and contributed the sections 

 on the Trochilidae and the Procellariidae to the British Museum 

 Catalogue of Birds, while his latest work was the completion of the 

 late Lord Lilford's " Coloured Figures of British Birds." He was the 

 author of some 150 papers in scientific publications, many jointly 

 with Mr Godman, or with Mr Sclater. 



Mr Osbert Salvin was one of the most kindly, amiable, and 

 unassuming of men, who had endeared himself to a large circle, not 

 the least part of which was the younger generation ; and his loss, 

 though severe enough to zoological science generally, will be still 

 more keenly felt by those whom he had encouraged and befriended. 



We are indebted to a sympathetic notice in The Times for much 

 of the above information. 



