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at the National Museum in the Jardin des Plantes. Here 

 lie made the acquaintance of the great ornithologist. Prince 

 Charles Bonaparte, at Avhose house, in the Hue de Lille, 

 he ATas a frequent visitor. In 1851 he entered as a student 

 at Lineoln^s Inn, while tlie winter of 1852-53 was devoted 

 to travel in Italy and Sicily. 



In December 1855, Sclater was admitted Fellow of his 

 college, and, having in tlie previous June been called to the 

 Bar, went on the Western Circuit for several years. 



In 1856 he made his first journey across the Atlantic, in 

 company with the Rew George Ilext, a fellow Oxonian. 

 Leaving England in July, they went by New York up the 

 Hudson to Saratoga, and there attended the ^Meeting of the 

 American Association for the Advancement of Science. 

 After that they went to Niagara, and thence through the 

 Great Lakes to Superior City, at the extreme end of Lake 

 Sui)erior. Here they engaged two Canadian '' voyageurs," 

 and travelled on foot through the backwoods to the upper 

 •waters of the St. Croix River. This they descended in a 

 birch-bark canoe to the jNIississippi. Sclater subsequently 

 published an account of this journey in the tliird volume 

 of illustrated Travels.' Reluming by steamboat and 

 railway to Philadelpia, he spent a month studying the 

 sjjlendid collection of birds belonging to the Academy of 

 Natural Sciences in that city, where he formed the acquaint- 

 ance of John Cassin, Joseph Leidy, John Le Conte, and other 

 then well-known members of that Society. He returned to 

 England shortly before Christmas 185G. For some years 

 after this he lived in London, practising at the Bai', but 

 always woi'king steadily at natural history. He was a 

 constant attendant at the meetings of the Zoological Society 

 of London, of which he was elected a Fellow^ in 1850, and 

 in 1857 became a Member of the Council. In 1858 he took 

 a prominent shai'e in founding ' The Ibis,' and became its 

 first Editor. 



In January 1859, Sclater made a short excursion to Tunis 

 and Eastern Algeria, in company with his friend E. C. 

 Taylor. They visited the breeding-places of the Vultures 



