

BULLETIN 



OF THE 



BRITISH ORNITHOLOGISTS' CLUB. 



No. CXCI. 



I. Obituary. 



The late Philip Lutley Sclater. 



By the death of Philip Lutley Sclater, M.A., D.Sc., F.R.S., 

 a distinguished figure has been lost to science, and the British 

 Ornithologists' Club has lost its Chairman. .This office 

 he had held since the formation of the Club in 1892. 

 Sclater was born at Tangier Park, Hampshire, in November 

 1829, and he was educated at Winchester and Corpus Christi 

 College, Oxford, where he graduated in 1849, and was sub- 

 sequently elected a Fellow of his College. He was called to 

 the Bar in 1855 and went on the Western Circuit for 

 several years. In 1859 Sclater was elected Secretary of the 

 Zoological Society, to which the greater part of his life's 

 work was dedicated. During the forty-three years that he 

 held that post, the Society gained immensely in numbers 

 and prosperity, and the collection of animals in the gardens 

 at Regent's Park became the most complete in the world. 



Of the vast mass of work dealing with a great variety of 

 different subjects *, which Sclater dealt with during his long 

 life, it is not very easy to say which is the most important, 

 but it is probable that his work on Zoogeography and the 

 Classification of Birds will be longest remembered. In 



* A detailed list of Sclater's published papers on Ornithology appears 

 in ' The Ibis' for October 1913. 



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