lecting, and the several papers that he published (far too few), telling 

 of his experience in that country, bear abundant evidence of the reflec- 

 tive and trained mind of the observer, as well as his moral perseverance 

 and physical endurance, in proof of which may be especially cited his 

 articles in ' The Ibis,' on collecting Trochilidce at Dueiias and other 

 places, and on the habits of the Quezal or Resplendent Trogon (Pharo- 

 maceous wwcinno) in Vera Paz. Returning to England in May, 1860, 

 he again went out in the autumn of 1861, this time accompanied by 

 Mr. Godman, continuing with greater success than before his former 

 explorations, and ere the year was out had twice ascended the 

 southern or fire peak of the Volcan de Fuego, near the city of Guate- 

 mala ('Athenaeum,' No. 1793, March 8, 1862, p. 331). The collec- 

 tions made in this tour, which did not end till January, 1863, were 

 very large, and comprised every class of the Fauna, while the Flora 

 was not neglected, and many of the ruined temples and other remains 

 of antiquity were visited and photographed. Soon after his return 

 home, Mr. Salvin was induced to undertake the management of some 

 engineering works in the north of England, but this employment, which 

 he found very distasteful to him, did not last long. In 1865 he married 

 Caroline, the daughter of Mr. W. W. Maitland, of Loughton, in Essex, 

 and sister of an old friend and contemporary at Trinity Hall, Mr. John 

 Whitaker Maitland, and, in 1873, set out with her on another voyage to 

 Central America, returning by way of the United States, chiefly with the 

 object of examining the collections in the Museums of Washington, 

 Philadelphia, New York, and Boston. In 1874, on the foundation of the 

 Strickland Curatorship of Ornithology in the University of Cambridge, 

 he accepted that office, which he filled until 1882, w r hen, his father having 

 died in 1881, he succeeded to the small but beautiful property at 

 Hawksfold, near Haslemere, whither he removed, making it his per- 

 manent residence, though there was scarcely a week some days of 

 which he did not pass in London, for he and Mr. Godman had 

 conceived the idea of bringing out a ' Biologia Centrali- Americana/ 

 being a complete Natural History of all the countries lying between 

 Mexico and the Isthmus of Panama. This gigantic task by far 

 the greatest work of the kind ever attempted taxed all their united 

 efforts as well as those of the many contributors they enlisted. The 

 botanical part has been completed, but the zoological portion, and 

 that by Mr. Maudslay on the antiquities, are still in progress. Before 

 beginning this, Mr. Salvin had edited the third series of * The Ibis,' 

 of which he had been, in 1858, one of the founders, and had brought 

 out a 'Catalogue of the Strickland Collection of Birds in the Cam- 

 bridge Museum,' which was published at the University Press. Hifc> 

 earliest contributions to scientific literature, while still an Under- 

 graduate, were to ' The Zoologist ' for 1856 (p. 5278) and 1857 (p. 

 5593), and shew the precise regard for accuracy which throughout his 



