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THE ZOOLOGIST. 



B I T U A E Y. 



Philip Lutley Sclater. 



Another of the prominent zoologists of our generation has passed 

 away in the person of Dr. Philip Lutley Sclater, D.Sc, F.K.S., who 

 died on June 27th last at the mature age of eighty-three years ; 

 he was born on November 4th, 1829, and lived a busy scientific life 

 throughout. 





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As Secretary of the Zoological Society of London from 1859 to 

 1902, he would, if necessary, be alone remembered by British natura- 

 lists. He was essentially for many years the strong man of that 

 Society, and at the time when the strong hand of an earnest zoolo- 

 gist was essential in building up what has been described by a 

 well-known American authority as " the most wealthy and vigorous 

 Zoological Society in the world," he wielded possibly a greater power 



