BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF PHILIP LUTLEY SCLATER. XIII 



Professor Newton took liis place as editor of the second series, and 

 Mr. Salvin as editor of the third. In 1877 he was associated with Mr. 

 Salvin as joint editor of the fourth series, and in 1883 commenced the 

 editorship of the fifth series, with Mr. Howard Saunders as co-editor. 

 When the fifth series was completed, in 1888, he became sole editor of 

 the sixth, which he finished in 1894. In 1895, having again obtained 

 the assistance of Mr. Howard Saunders, he commenced work on the 

 seventh series, of which two volumes are already complete. 



When the British Ornithologists' Club was established in 1892, he 

 joined heartily in the movement inaugurated by Dr. R. Bowdler 

 Sharpe, and has usually had the honor of occupying the chair at its 

 meetings and of delivering an inaugural address at the commence- 

 ment of each session. 



With the British Association for the Advancement of Science he 

 has had a long connection, having become a member in 1847 at the 

 second Oxford meeting, and having attended its meetings with few 

 exceptions ever since. For several years he was secretary of Section 

 D, and at the Bristol meeting in 1875 he was president of that section 

 and delivered an address "On the present state of our knowledge of 

 geographical zoology" (Paper No. 743). In 187G he was elected one 

 of the two general secretaries of the association, together with Sir 

 Douglas Galton, and served in that capacity for five years, thereby 

 becoming an ex officio member of the council, at the meetings of 

 which he is a constant attendant. 



Ever since the scientific journal " Nature" was started b}^ Professor 

 Lockyer in 18G9, he has been a frequent contributor to that most 

 important periodical. 



In 188G he began the transfer of his private collection of American 

 bird skins to the British Museum. This collection contained 8,824 

 specimens, representing 3,158 species, belonging to the orders Pas- 

 seres, PicariPB, and Psittaci. It may be remarked that when he 

 began his collection at Oxford in 1847 he intended to collect birds of 

 every kind and from all parts of the world, but after a few years 

 resolved to confine his attention particularly to the oi-nithology of 

 South and Central America and to collect only in the orders just 

 mentioned, which were at that time generally less known than the 

 others and of which the specimens are of a more manageable size for 

 the private collector. 



At the time of the beginning of this transfer, which was onl}^ com- 

 pleted in 1890, he agreed to prepare some of the volumes of the 

 British Museum "Catalogue of Birds," relating to the groups to which 

 he had paid special attention. In accordance with this arrangement 

 by the expenditure of fuU}^ two j^ears of his leisure time for each vol- 

 ume, he prepared the eleventh volume in 1886, the fourteenth in 

 1888, the fifteenth in 1890, and half of the nineteenth in 1891. 



When the Challenger expedition started around the world in 1873, 

 at the request of his friend, the late Sir Wyville Thomson, he agreed 



