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Dk. p. L. SCLATER.^ 



Philip Liitley Sclater A\as born, in November 18.29, at 

 Tangier Park, in Hampshire, then the residence of his 

 father, Mr. William Lntley Sclater, J. P. : but his boyhood 

 was passed at Hoddington House, another estate in the same 

 county, also belonging to his father, to which the family 

 moved in the month of September 1833. 



In beantiful Hampshire, not far from the old home of 

 Gilbert White of Selborne, Sclater acquired, at an early 

 age, a love for outdoor life and exercise and a special taste 

 for the study of birds. At the age of ten he was sent to a 

 well-known school at Twyford, near Vv'inchester. In 1842, 

 having reached the top of the school, he was transferred to 

 Winchester College, and in 1815 Avas elected Scholar of 

 Corpus Christi College, Oxford. Being at that time under 

 sixteen years of age, he was not called into residence at the 

 University until Easter, 1846. At Oxford his attention was 

 given principally to mathematics, though his spare time was 

 occupied b}'' the study of birds, and of the excellent series of 

 natural-history books then in the Radcliffe Library. 



Hugh E. Strickland, the Avell-known ornithologist, who 

 was at that time resident in Oxford as Reader in Geology, 

 became interested in young Sclater, and took him under 

 his patronage. At Strickland's house in Oxford he met 

 John Gould, shortly after his return from his great journey 

 to Australia. From Strickland he received his first instruc- 

 tion in scientific ornithology. He began his collection of 

 bird-skins at Oxford, making British skins for himself, and 



* [This article is au abridgment (with slight corrections and addi- 

 tions) of the late Dr. G. Brown Goode's * Biographical Sketch,' which 

 forms part of the Introduction to his 'List of the Published Writings of 

 Philip Lutley Sclater ' contained in the ' Bulletin of the United States 

 National Museum,' Xo. 49. Washington, 1896;] 



