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give obitu£^ry notices, from whicli we copy. 

 Mr. Osbert Salvin, the emineut ornithologist, 

 died on June 1st at his residence, Hawksfold, 

 near Haslemere. The son of the late Mr. An- 

 thony Salvin, the well-known architect, he was 

 born in 1835, and received his education at 

 Westminster and Trinity Hall, Cambridge, 

 where he graduated as a Senior Optime in the 

 Mathematical Tripos of 1857. Immediately 

 after taking his degree he, together with Mr. W. 

 H. Hudleston (then Simpson), joined Mr. (now 

 Canon) Tristram in his natural history explo- 

 ration of Tunis and eastern Algeria, where 

 they passed five months. In the autumn of the 

 same year Mr. Salvin proceeded to Guatemala, 

 where, chiefly in company with the late Mr. 

 G. U. Skinner, the celebrated collector of 

 orchids, he stayed till the middle of 1858, 

 returning to Central America (henceforth 

 always to be associated with his name) about 

 twelve months later. He again went out in 

 1861, accompanied by Mr. Frederick Godman, 

 and continued the explorations he had al- 

 ready begun, but was home again in 1863. In 

 1865 he married Caroline, the daughter of 

 Mr. W. W. Maitland, of Loughton, in Esses, 

 and with her subsequently undertook another 

 voyage to Central America. In 1874, on the 

 foundation of the Strickland Curatorship in the 

 University of Cambridge, he accepted that 

 office, which be filled until 1883, when, on his 

 father's death, he succeeded to the property at 

 Hawksfold, and moved thither, though there 

 was hardly a week in which he did not pass 

 some days in London, for, with Mr. Godman, 

 he had conceived the idea of bringing out a 

 ' Biologia Central!- Americana,' being a com- 

 plete natural historj' of the countries lying be- 

 tween Mexico and the Isthmus of Panama. 

 This gigantic task, by far the greatest work of 

 the kind ever attempted, taxed all their united 

 efforts, and those of the many contributors they 

 enlisted, and is still in progress. Before be- 

 ginning this, Mr. Salvin had edited the third 

 series of ' The Ibis,' of which he was one of the 

 founders, and had brought out a ' Catalogue of 

 the Strickland Collection ' in the Cambridge 

 Museum. He contributed also the Trochilidse 

 (humming birds) and Procellarildx (petrels) — 

 on which last group he was the acknowledged 



authority, to the British Museum ' Catalogue 

 of Birds,' and almost his latest labor was that 

 of completing and arranging the late Lord Lil- 

 ford's 'Coloured Figures of British Birds,' 

 while the Royal Society's ' Catalogue of Scien- 

 tific Papers ' enumerates 47 published by Mr. 

 Salvin alone, 23 by him and Mr. Godman 

 jointly, and 54 by him and Mr. Sclater, all be- 

 fore 1884. Mr. Salvin was a Fellow of the 

 Eoyal, the Linnsean, the Zoological and the- 

 Entomological Societies, on the Councils of all 

 of which he frequently served. 



The death occurred on June 6th at Cambridge, 

 in his 81st year, of the Rev. Percival Frost, 

 F.R.S., D.Sc. Born at Hull, while his father 

 practiced as a solicitor, he was educated at 

 Beverley, Oakham and Cambridge, where he 

 was second wrangler and first Smith's prizeman 

 in 1839, Fellow of St. John's College from that 

 year to 1841, mathematical lecturer at Jesus Col- 

 lege from 1847 to 1859, mathematical lecturer 

 at King's College, Cambridge, from 1859 to 

 1889. He had been a Fellow of King's Col- 

 lege since 1882, in which year he was also 

 elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. Dr. 

 Frost was the author of treatises on ' Curve 

 Tracing,' 'Solid Geometry,' 'The First Three 

 Sections of Newton's Principles,' as also of 

 numerous papers published in the Cambridge 

 Mathematical Journal, the Oxford and Cambridge 

 Journal of Mathematics, and the Quarterly Jour- 

 nal of Mathematics. 



Mr. Heney Perigal, the Treasurer of the 

 Royal Meteorological Society, died on June 7th 

 at the advanced age of 97 years. Mr. Perigal 

 was for some time a clerk in the Privy Council 

 Office, and afterwards in the old Victualling 

 Office. Subsequently he joined the firm of 

 Messrs. Henry Tudor & Son, of Threadneedle 

 street. He was the author of various works on 

 astronomy, bicycloidal and other curves, kine- 

 matics and the laws of motion, probable mode 

 of constructing the pyramids, etc. He was a 

 Fellow of the Royal Astronomical, Royal Micro- 

 scopical and Royal Meteorological Societies, as 

 well as a member of several other scientific as- 

 sociations, and until within two years of his 

 death was constant in his attendance at their 

 meetings. 



