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Anthony Salvin, a well-known architect. Shortly after graduating at 

 Cambridge as Senior Optirne in the Mathematical Tripos of 1S57, he 

 made a Natural History Expedition to Tunis and Algeria, in the company 

 of Mr. W. H. Hudleston and Mr. (now Canon) Tristram, both of whom 

 survive. In the autumn of the same year he made the first expedition to 

 a country with which his life's work was to be largely associated ; this 

 was his visit to Guatemala, where he stayed chiefij' in company with the- 

 late Mr. G. U. Skinner, the well-known collector of orchids, till the 

 middle of 1858, revisiting the same region in about a year, and for a 

 third time in 1861, in company with his friend and future coadjutor, 

 Mr. F. D. Godman. After his marriage, in 1865, he with his wife made 

 a fourth journey to Central America. . . . 



"From the foundation of the Strickland Curatorship in the University 

 of Cambridge, in 1874, Mr. Salvin accepted and held that office until 

 1883, when he succeeded to the family estate. . . . 



"In association with his life-long friend Mr. Godman we see a capacity 

 and love for scientific zoology combined with the accident of wealth 

 which are phenomenal. The publication of the ' Biologia Centrali- 

 Americana' is an unique event both in project and realization. Its 

 conception not only proclaimed a devotion to zoological labour on the 

 part of its editors, but declared an optimism in the expected assistance 

 of other workers, which was generally seen to be amply justified. The 

 expense of production would have strained the available finances of a 

 small state, and would have required a financial vote — not likely to have 

 been granted — of an enlightened empire. Such amounts are privately 

 wasted every year, but seldom contributed to science, especially to such 

 a sober and non-advertising science as zoology. ... It is probable that it 

 will be long before such an union occurs again as produced the ' Biologia,' 

 and made the rooms in Chandos Street [10 Chandos Street. Cavendish 

 Square, London] such a zoological rendezvous." 



Mr. Salvin was a lepidopterist of note, as well as an ornithologist, his 

 special field in entomology being the Rhopalocera, which group he elab- 

 orated in conjunction with Mr. Godman, for the ' Biologia.' His contribu- 

 tions to American ornithology appear to have begun in 1859, in joint 

 authorship with Mr. P. L. Sclater, in a series of papers entitled 'On the 

 Ornithology of Central America,' contributed to the first and second 

 volumes of 'The Ibis,' the first of which, by an interesting coincidence, 

 formed the first article of the first number of this eminent journal. 

 From this date onward contributions to the ornithology of Centi-al 

 America, and later to that of South America by Mr. Salvin, either alone 

 or jointly with Mr. Sclater, appear with great frequency in 'The Ibis' 

 and in the ' Proceedings' of the Zoological Society of London, constitut- 

 ing highly important and voluminous additions to the literature of 

 Tropical American ornithology. In 1866-69 ^'^'as published the magnificent 

 'Exotic Ornithology, containing figm-es and descriptions of new and rare 

 species of American Birds,' a folio volume in thirteen parts, with one hun- 



