ORIGINAL JIEMBEKS. 1.27 



Mr. OSBERT SALVIN. 



Osbert Salviu^ at the time of liis death the Secretary of 

 the British Ornithologists' Union, died at his residence, 

 Hawksfold, in Sussex, on the 1st of June, 1898. 



He was the second son of the well-known architect 

 Mr. Anthony Salvin, of Hawksfold, near Haslemere, in 

 Sussex. Born in 1835, Salvin was educated at Westminster 

 and afterAvards at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, where he 

 graduated as Senior Optime in the Mathematical Tripos of 

 1857. Shortly after taking his degree, he went, in company 

 with Mr. W. Hudleston Simpson (now Hudleston), to 

 Northern Africa, to join the Rev. H. B. Tristram, in studying 

 the natural history of Tunisia and Eastern Algeria. An 

 account of tliis Expedition appeared in the first volume of 

 'The Ibis' (1859), under the title of "Five Months' Birds'- 

 nesting in the Eastern Atlas." It is hardly necessary to say 

 tliat Salvin was one of the original Members of the British 

 Ornithologists' Union, and in fact the very first paper 

 published in ' The Ibis ' was written by him in conjunction 

 with Sclater. The subject was the " Ornithology of Central 

 America," Salvin having made the first of several visits to 

 Guatemala in 1857, the second being in 1859. The number 

 of his contributions to ' The Ibis ' may be judged from the 

 fact that they extend over more than two columns in the 

 General Subject-Index. In 1861 Salvin returned again to 

 Guatemala in company Avith his life-long friend Mr. P. D. 

 Godman. It was during this journej'- that the 'Biologia 

 Centrali- Americana * was planned by the two friends, and 

 although Salvin did not live to see the publication com- 

 pleted, the co-editorship of that monumental work was his 

 pre-occupation for the rest of his life. Salvin remained in 

 Guatemala for two years, returning there again in 1873 for 

 one year. 



