BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF PHILIP LUTLEY SCLATER. XIII 



Professor Newton look his place as oditoi- of tlie second series, and 

 Mr. Salvin as editor of the third. In 1S77 lie was associated Avith Mr. 

 Salvin as Joint editor of tlie fourth series, and in 188.3 coinmenced the 

 editorshii) of the fifth series, with Mr. Howard Saunders as co-editor. 

 When the fifth series was completed, in 1888, he became sole editor of 

 ti\o sixth, wliicli lie linished in 1804. In 1895, havlni;- a.i!;ain obtained 

 the assistance of 3Ir. Howard Saunders, lie commenced work on the 

 seventh series, of which two volumes are already complete. 



When the British Ornitholosi'ists' Club was established in 18!)2, he 

 joined heartily in the movement inaugurated by Dr. R. IJowdler 

 Sharpe, and has usually had the honor of occupyinii; the chair at its 

 meetings and of delivering an inaugural address at the commence- 

 ment of each session. 



With the British Association for the Advancement of Science he 

 has had a long connection, having become a member in 1847 at the 

 second O.xford meetiug, and having attended its meetings with few 

 exceptions ever since. Foi' several 3'ears he was secretary of Section 

 I), and at the liristol meeting in 1875 he was president of that si^ction 

 and delivei'ed an addiess "On the present state of our knowledge of 

 geographical zoology" (Pa[)er No. 743). In 187() he was elected one 

 of the two general secretaries of the association, together with Sir 

 Douglas Galton, and served in that capacity for five years, thereby 

 becoming an ex officio member of the council, at the meetings of 

 which he is a constant attendant. 



Ever since the scientific journal "Nature" was started by Professor 

 Lockyer in 1869, he has been a frequent contributoi" to that most 

 imi)ortant periodical. 



In 1880 he began the transfer of his private collection of American 

 bird skins to the British Museum. This collection contained 8,824 

 specimens, representing 3,158 species, belonging to the orders Pas- 

 seres, Picarife, and Psittaci. It may be remarked that when he 

 began his collection at Oxford in 1847 he intended to collect birds of 

 every kind and from all parts of the world, but after a few years 

 resolved to confine his attention particularly to the ornithology of 

 South and Central America and to collect only in the orders just 

 mentioned, which wei'(; at that time generally less known than the 

 others and of which the specimens ai"e of a more manageable size for 

 the private collector. 



At the time of the begi,nning of this transfer, which was only c«)m- 

 pleted in 1890, lie agreed to prepare some of the volumes of the 

 British Museum "Catalogue of Birds," relating to the groups to which 

 he had paid s[)ecial attention. In accordance with this arrangement 

 by the expenditure of fully two years of his leisure time for each vol- 

 ume, he prepared the eleventh volume in 1880, the fourteenth in 

 1888, the fifteenth in 1890, and half of the nineteenth in 1891. 



When the C/^aZ/p/ifye/- expedition started around the world in 1873, 

 at the request of his friend, the late Sir Wyville Thomson, he agreed 



