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Obituary. 



OsBERT SalviNj F.R.S., wliose lamented death on the 

 1st of June was announced in our last number, was the 

 second son of the late Mr. Anthony Salvin, of Hawksfold, 

 near Hasleniere, in Sussex, the well-known architect. 

 Born in 1835, Salvin was educated at Westminster and 

 afterwards at .Trinity Hall, Cambridge, where he graduated 

 as Senior Optinie in the Mathematical Tripos of 1857. 

 Shortly after taking his degree, he proceeded, in company 

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

 join the Rev. H. B. (now Canon) Tristram, in the study 

 of the natural history of Tunisia and Eastern Algeria, in 

 which five months were pleasantly passed, as those of our 

 readers who are acquainted with the contents of the first 

 volume of 'The I)jis ^ (1859) will be well aware (see "Five 

 Months' Birds'-nesting in the Eastern Atlas"). It is hardly 

 necessary to say that 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; while a second expedi- 

 tion to the same country, in which his companion was Mr. F. 

 D. Godman, was eff'ected in 1861. The result of the friend- 

 ship and co-operation thus established is seen in the monu- 

 mental ' Biologia Centrali-Americana,' which has not yet 

 been brought to a conclusion. In 1871 Salvin commenced 

 the editorship of the 3rd series of ' The Ibis,' and, in co- 

 operation with Sclater, concluded the 4th series in 1882. 

 Meanwhile he had been appointed to the Strickland Curator- 

 ship in the University of Cambridge and had produced his 

 well-known Catalogue of the Strickland Collection. Salvin 

 was an excellent, indeed we may truly say almost iinri vailed 

 " all round" ornithologist; but his strongest subjects were 

 perhaps the Avifauna of the Neotropical region, and his 

 special groups the families Trochilidae and Procellariidse, 

 which were assigned to him as the acknowledged authority 



