BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF PHILIP LUTLEY SCLATER. XV 



William Liitley Sclater, has inherited his father's tastes: he was for 

 four years an assistant in the Indian Museum in Calcutta, and after a 

 short term of service as science master at Eton College was appointed 

 director of the South African Museum at Cape Town, a position which 

 he now occupies. 



The second son, Capt. Bertram Lutley Sclater, is an officer in the 

 Royal E^ng-ineers, and is now on duty in British East Africa, con- 

 structing a road to Uganda from the coast. 



The third son, Lieut. Guy Lutley Sclater, an officer in the Royal 

 Navy, is a specialist in torpedo work; while the youngest, Arthur 

 Lutley Sclater, is a tea planter in Ceylon. 



In 1887, after a continuous residence of more than twenty-five 

 years in London, he gave up his residence in Elvaston Place, where 

 so many American naturalists visiting England have received a 

 hearty welcome. He has since lived in Hampshire at his country 

 house, "Odiham Priory," about forty miles from town, taking a house 

 for his family in London for three or four months at the beginning 

 of each year. In summer he constantly visits the Continent, making 

 excursions to see tlie various zoological gardens and museums. 



Mr. Sclater received the degree of doctor of j)hilosophy honoris 

 causa from the University of Bonn in 1860, and in 1861 was elected a 

 fellow of the Royal Society, on the council of which he has twice 

 served. As has alreadj'^ been said, he has long been an active mem- 

 ber of the Council of the British Association for the Advancement of 

 Science, as well as of that of the Royal Geographical Society. 



A list of the other scientific and learned societies of which he is a 

 member is as follows: 



Fellow of Linnean Society of London (1856) ; member of Allgemeine 

 deutsche ornithologische Gesellschaft (1856) ; corresponding member 

 of Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia (1856); corresponding 

 member of Lyceum of Natural History, New York (1857); corre- 

 sponding member of Dublin University Zoological and Botanical 

 Association (1859); member of British Ornithologists' Union (1859); 

 member of Academia Germanica Naturae Curiosorum, cognomine 

 " Bechstein " (1800); honorary member of Sociedad de Naturalistas 

 Neo-Granadinos (1860) ; honorary member of Royal Zoological Society 

 of Ireland (1861); member of k. k. zoologisch-botanische Gesell- 

 schaft in Wien (1862); member of Philosophical Club (1862); honor- 

 ary member of Zoologische Gesellschaft in Hamburg (1863) ; honorary 

 member of Zoological and Acclimatization Society of Victoria (1865); 

 honorary member of Rotterdamsche Diergaarde (1866); correspond- 

 ing member of the Gesellschaft fiir vaterlandische Naturkunde in 

 Wurttemberg (1867) ; lionorary member of the Sociedad de Ciencias 

 Fisicas y Naturales of Caracas (1869); corresponding member of 

 Academia Scientiarum Instituti Bononiensis (1870) ; honorary mem- 

 ber of Koninklijk Zoologisch Genootschap " Natura Artis Magistra" 

 of Amsterdam (1871); member of Geologists' Association, London 



