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OBITUARY. 
OsBERT SALVIN. 
THE death of this well-known and highly-respected ornitho- 
- logist and entomologist took place suddenly, though not altogether 
unexpectedly, at Hawksfold, near Haslemere, on June Ist, from an 
old-established heart disease, which had been borne stoically and 
contemplated cheerfully. He was born at Finchley in 1835, and 
was the only surviving son of Mr. Anthony Salvin, a well-known 
architect. Shortly after graduating at Cambridge as Senior Optime 
in the Mathematical Tripos of 1857, 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 chiefly in com- 
pany 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 marri- 
age, in 1865, he with his wife made a fourth journey to Central 
America. ‘There can be no doubt that these expeditions incited 
the project and prepared the way for the publication of ‘ Biologia 
Centrali-Americana,’ of which 142 parts have already appeared, 
and which is still unfinished. 
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. - 
As an ornithologist, he edited the third series of the ‘Ibis,’ of 
which he was one of the founders ; was author of a ‘ Catalogue of 
the Strickland Collection’ in the Cambridge Museum ; to the 
British Museum Catalogue of Birds he contributed the enumera- 
tion of the Trochilide and Procellaride ; completed and arranged 
the late Lord Lilford’s ‘ Coloured Figures of British Birds,’ and 
