6 Elliot, In Memoriam: Philip Lutley Sclater. [jan. 



talented brother of the illustrious discover of Nineveh, who brought 

 with him the breath of the South African veldt, and the knowledge 

 of the feathered creatures that wing their way over its wide expanses, 

 as his work on the birds of that region proved. Robert Swinhoe, 

 modest of mien, handsome of face, versed in the birds of China and 

 far distant Formosa. Arthur Penrhyn, better known as Viscount 

 Walden, and later as the Marquis of Tweeddale, and whose volumi- 

 nous papers on the birds of the Philippine Islands and those of other 

 eastern lands are well known. Hoioard Saunders, master of the 

 long wunged skimmers of the seas, of continental coasts, and the 

 shores of the far flung islands of the main. Frederic Ducane 

 Godman, chief editor and co-author with Osbert Salvin of the colos- 

 sal work on the natural history of Central America, the "Bio- 

 logia Centrali Americana." Then there rises before me the majestic 

 figure with the lion-like head covered with silvered hair and leng- 

 thened beard of Edward Blyth, whose mind was stored with the 

 knowledge of the birds and quadrupeds of India and other eastern 

 lands, and his colleague and coworker in the same fields Dr. T. C. 

 Jerdon Alston, already bearing in his delicate form the seeds of the 

 complaint that cut all too soon his promising career. At times 

 there would be present celebrated ornithologists from the Continent 

 and during the French and German war Jules P. Verreaux left his 

 native city, Paris, on the advent of the German army, and came 

 to London and occupied Sclater's private room in the library 

 building, which had been courteously placed at his disposal. Be- 

 sides these there were others not strictly ornithologists, but very 

 eminent in their various chosen fields of work. Sir Richard Owen, 

 with his elaborate contributions on the great Dinornis, the extinct 

 giant birds of New Zealand. Sir William Henry Flower, great 

 comparate anatomist, and later joint author with Lydekker of 

 "Animals Living and Extinct." Thomas Huxley and William 

 ■ Kitchen Parker, world widely known, and St. George Mivart, cele- 

 brated with the two others just named for their intimate knowledge 

 of animal anatomy. Then we recognize Garrod, Forbes and Murie, 

 successive prosectors of the Garden, and whose many and elaborate 

 papers shed a flood of light upon the affinities, and their proper 

 places in classifications of the animals submitted to their scalpels. 

 The artists were represented: there came Joseph Wolf with his 



