THE AUK: 



A QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF 



ORNITHOLOGY. 



Vol. XXXI. January, 1914. No. 1 



IN MEMORIAM: PHILIP LUTLEY SCLATER.^ 

 Born 4th Nov., 1829 — Died, 27th June, 1913. 



BY D. G. ELLIOT, D. SC, F. R. S. E., &e. 



Plate I. 



A Prince in the realm of Zoological Science has fallen, and I am 

 called here today to bid you look upon his face, and hearken to the 

 records of his deeds. Death, whom the Poet has called "The 

 Beautiful Angel," has in recent years frequently visited within 

 our ranks, and many and wide are the gaps he has made, until the 

 brilliant cohort that embraced all of our noblest and best, is now 

 shattered and dispersed, leaving of its talented members, but a 

 sorrowing remnant, survivors of a glorious host. 



Of all those who did brilliant work during the past sixty years, 

 and whose familiar places know them now no more, it would seem 

 almost invidious to select by name any particular member of that 

 celebrated company, which made the middle and latter part of the 

 last century glorious in our annals, a few survivors of whom even 

 extending its renown into the opening of this one, which we have 

 been privileged to witness. 



But high as is the rank in our science which we willingly accord 

 to many of that distinguished band, and which was one of the 

 glories of the Victorian Era, yet there was one who occupied a 



> Address delivered 11th November, 1913, at the thirty-flrst stated meeting of 

 the American Ornithologists' Union. 



