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Gardens, and invented tlie title " Prosector " for die holder 

 of the new office. A. H. Garrod, uho became Prosector in 

 1871, and W. A. Forbes, who succeeded him in 1879 — 

 both very talented and promising young naturalists, — were 

 dear friends of Sclater, and the unfortunate death of Forbes 

 during an excursion to the Niger in 1883 was a most severe 

 blow to him. Notable among his other friends was Charles 

 Darwin, avIio frequently visited, him in his office, bringing 

 long lists of memoranda for conference. 



Mr. Sclater married in 18G2 Jane Anne Eliza Hunter 

 Blair, daughter of the late Sir David Hunter Blair, Baronet, 

 of Blairquhan, in Ayrshire. He had six children, of whom 

 four are still living. One of them is particularly well known 

 to us as our present Editor. 



Sclater received the honorary degree of Doctor of Philo- 

 sophy from the University of Bonn in 1860, and was made 

 a Doctor of Science by the University of Oxford in 1901. 

 He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1831, and 

 has twice served on the Council. Besides the Societies 

 already mentioned, lie was also a Life-Fellow of the Linnean, 

 Geographical, and Geological Societies, and a Corresponding 

 or Honorary Member of upwards of forty other Scientific 

 bodies at home and abroad. 



Subsequently to his resignation of the Secretaryship of the 

 Zoological Society in 1903 (after forty-three years' tenure of 

 that important post), Sclater resided entirely at his house 

 at Odiham, in Hampshire, within easy reach of London, 

 and continued to be a constant visitor to the Zoological 

 Society's Library and the great collection of birds at South 

 Kensington. In North Hants he was widely known as an 

 active J. P. and a frequent rider with the Hampshire Plunt. 

 of which he was by far the oldest member. 



Sclater's death took place, as the result of a carriage 

 accident, on June 27, 1913, at the age of eighty-three years. 

 He leaves a widow, three sons and a daughter. 



A. H. Evans. 



