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the project of eiuploying au anatomist at the Society's 

 Gardens, and invented the title "Prosector^' for the new 

 office. A. H. Garrod, wlio became Prosector in 1871, and 

 W. A. Forbes, who succeeded him in 1879 — both very 

 talented and promising young naturalists, — were dear friends 

 of Sclater, and the unfortunate death of Forbes during an 

 excursion to the Niger in 1883 Avas a most severe blow to 

 ihim. Notable among his other friends was Charles Darwin, 

 who frequently visited him in his office, bringing long lists 

 of memoranda for conference. 



Mr. Sclater married in 1862 Jane Anne Eliza Hunter 

 Blair, daughter of the late Sir David Hunter Blair, Baronet, 

 of Blairquhan, in Ayrshire. He has had six children, of 

 whom four are still living. One of them (William Lutley 

 :Sclater) is a Member of our Union and well known to us. 



Sclater received the honorary degree of Doctor of Philo- 

 sophy from the University of Bonn in 1860, and was made 

 a Doctor of Science by the University of Oxford in 1901. 

 He was elected a Fellow of the Boyal Society in 1861, and 

 has twice served on the Council. Besides the Societies 

 already mentioned, he is also a Life-Fellow of the Linnean, 

 Geographical, and Geological Societies, and a Corresponding 

 or Honorary Member of upwards of forty other Scientific 

 Societies at home and abroad. Besides the works already 

 alluded to, he has published the ' Book of Antelopes,' in four 

 quarto volumes (in conjunction with Mr. Oldfield Thomas), 

 "^ Exotic Ornithology ' (in conjunction with the late Osbert 

 Salvin), 'Argentine Ornithology/ and many other works. 

 A complete list of these and of the papers which he has 

 written in the ' Proceedings ' and ' Journals ' of various 

 Learned Societies and in other periodicals will be found in 

 No. 49 of the 'Bulletin of the United States National 

 Museum/ from which the present memoir is mainly taken. 

 In 1896 his publications were 1239 in number^ but a few 

 more have since been added to the list. 



Since he resigned the Secretaryship of the Zoological 

 Society in 1903 (after forty-three years' tenure of that 

 important post), Sclater has resided entirely at his house in 



