July 1898] OBITUARIES 63 
the conclusions are by no means accepted by those who have worked 
over the same ground. Dr Hurst was a man of wide reading, a keen 
controversialist, and a staunch friend of those few who knew him 
intimately. Wee Ee 
OSBERT SALVIN 
Born 1835. Diep Ist JuNE 1898 
WE deeply regret to record the death of this amiable and kindly man, 
this accomplished ornithologist and entomologist, who has done so 
much for zoological science. Mr Salvin passed away peacefully in 
his sleep. He had known for years that his heart was in so weak a 
state that life was extremely uncertain; but this in no way dis- 
couraged or dismayed him. 
Mr Salvin was the second son of the architect Anthony Salvin, 
and was born in 1835. He was a Westminster boy, passing to 
Trinity Hall, Cambridge, graduating in 1857. On taking his degree 
he went to Tunis and Eastern Algeria on a natural history expedition 
in company with Mr W. H. Simpson (afterwards Hudleston) and Mr 
(now Canon) Tristram. They were away five months, and on the 
return of the party, in the autumn of the same year, Salvin pro- 
ceeded to Guatemala where, chiefly in company with the late G. U. 
Skinner, the orchid hunter, he stayed until the middle of 1858, 
returning again to Central America about twelve months later. In 
186], Salvin again went to Central America, accompanied by F. Du 
Cane Godman, to continue his explorations, but returned home in 
1863. Marrying in 1865, he, with his wife, undertook a fourth trip 
to Central America. In 1874 he accepted the first Strickland curator- 
ship in the university of Cambridge, and filled the office until 1885, 
when on the death of his father, he succeeded to Hawksfold, near 
Haslemere. About this time he threw all his energies into the 
“ Biologia Centrali-Americana,” a work conceived by his friend and 
colleague Du Cane Godman and himself, and now having reached 
many volumes. This “Biologia” was schemed to be a complete 
natural history of all the countries between Mexico and the Isthmus 
of Panama, and is remarkable not only for the wealth of material it 
places at the disposal of the zoologists, but for the regularity of issue, 
and the care with which details of publication and other matters are 
considered. Salvin edited the third series of The Ibis, of which he 
was one of the founders, brought out a “Catalogue of the Strickland 
Collection” in the Cambridge Museum, and contributed the sections 
on the Trochilidae and the Procellariidae to the British Museum 
Catalogue of Birds, while his latest work was the completion of the 
late Lord Lilford’s “Coloured Figures of British Birds.” He was the 
author of some 150 papers in scientific publications, many jointly 
with Mr Godman, or with Mr Sclater. 
Mr Osbert Salvin was one of the most kindly, amiable, and 
unassuming of men, who had endeared himself to a large circle, not 
the least part of which was the younger generation; and his loss, 
though severe enough to zoological science generally, will be still 
more keenly felt by those whom he had encouraged and befriended. 
We are indebted to a sympathetic notice in The Times for much 
of the above information. 
