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of St. Andrews, Trustee of the British Museum, and Foreign Secretary to the 

 Eoyal Academy. He served five distinct periods on the Council of the Eoyal 

 Society, the last heing in the year 1906-7, and was three times Vice- 

 President. He was Commander of the Legion of Honour, and held the 

 German " Ordre pour le M&'ite." 



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PHILIP LUTLEY SCLATEE— 1829-1913. 



Philip Lutley Sclater was born in November, 1829, at Tangier Park, in 

 Hampshire, where his father, Mr. William Lutley Sclater, then resided, though 

 he shortly after moved to Hoddington House, another estate in the same 

 county, not far from the old home of Gilbert White, where his boyhood was 

 passed. 



In 1842 he went to Winchester College and was elected a scholar of Corpus 

 Chris ti College, Oxford, in 1845, but being under age was not called into 

 residence at the University until the following year. At Oxford he devoted 

 his studies chiefly to mathematics, but at the same time he occupied much of 

 his spare time in the pursuit of natural history, his speciality, as in after life, 

 being ornithology. While at Oxford he was fortunate in becoming acquainted 

 with H. E. Strickland, and at his house he met John Gould, shortly after the 

 return of the latter from Australia. It was from them that he received his 

 first serious instruction in ornithology, and it was during his Oxford days that 

 he commenced his collection of birds. 



In 1849 he took his degree, obtaining a first class in Mathematics and a 

 pass in Classics, but he remained for two years longer at college before 

 proceeding to his MA. degree. During this time he also studied modern 

 languages and became familiar with French, German, and Italian, spending as 

 much of his time as he could spare on the Continent. At Paris he made the 

 acquaintance of Prince Charles Bonaparte, at whose house he was a constant 

 visitor, and thus he received a further stimulus in his favourite pursuit of 

 ornithology. 



In 1855 Sclater became a Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and 

 was called to the Bar by the Honourable Society of Lincoln's Inn and Went 

 on the Western Circuit for several years. In 1856 he visited America, in 

 company with a friend, and attended the American Association for the 

 Advancement of Science, at Saratoga, after which they proceeded to Niagara 

 and the Great Lakes, and on foot to the upper waters of the St. Croix Eiver, 

 thence descending in a birch-bark canoe to the Mississippi. They finally 

 returned to Philadelphia, where Sclater spent some time studying the fine 

 collections at the Academy of Natural Sciences and meeting John Cassin, 



