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In 1871 Salvin undertook tlie editorship of the third series 

 of 'The Ibis/ and^ in co-operation Avith Sclater^ concluded 

 the fourth series in 1882. Meanwhile he had been appointed 

 to the Strickland Cnratorship in the University of Cambridge, 

 and had produced his well-known Catalogue of tlie Strickland 

 Collection. Salvin Avas an excellent, indeed we may truly say 

 almost unrivalled, " all round " ornithologist; but his strongest 

 subject was, perhaps, the Avifauna of the Neotropical region, 

 and his special groups the families Trochilidee and Procel- 

 lariidee, which Avere assigned to him as the acknowledged 

 authority in the ' Catalogue of Birds in the British Museum' 

 (vols. xvi. and xxv.). Almost his last piece of work was the 

 completion of the late Lord Lilford's ' Coloured Figures of 

 British Birds. ^ Salvin Avas a Fellow of the Hoyal, the 

 Linnean, the Zoological, and the Entomological Societies, 

 and serA^ed on their Councils, while his services for many 

 years to the B. O. U., as Editor and afterwards as Treasurer, 

 are known to all of us. He was elected an Honorary Fellow 

 of his College, Trinity Hall, in 1897. With a character of 

 remarkable straightforwardness and common sense he com- 

 bined an excellent judgment; Avliile he was personally much 

 beloved, so that his loss was deeply and sincerely felt, as 

 Avell on account of his qualities as by reason of difficulties 

 experienced in arranging for the continuation of the manv 

 duties Avhich he performed up to the moment of his de])arture 

 from us. 



