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birds near Odibam. On April 30, 1859, he was elected 
Secretary of the Zoological Society in succession to Dr. 
Mitchell, and was selected by the B.O.U. as the first editor 
of its journal, the Ibis , in the same year. He finished the 
first series in 1864. Professor Newton took his place as 
editor of the second series, and Osbert Salvin as editor of the 
third. In 1877 Sclater was associated with Salvin as editor 
of the fourth series, and in 1883 with Howard Saunders in 
the editorship of the fifth series. In 1889 he became sole 
editor of the sixth series, which was finished in 1894. In 
1895, having again obtained the assistance of Howard 
Saunders, he commenced work on the seventh series, which 
was completed in 1900. With A. H. Evans as co-editor he 
completed the eighth series in 1906, and the ninth series in 
1913. 
When the B.O.C. was established in 1892, he joined 
heartily in the movement inaugurated by Dr. R. Bowdler 
Sharpe, and usually occupied the chair at its meetings and 
delivered the inaugural address at the commencement of 
each session. 
In 188$ Sclater began to transfer his great collection of 
American bird-skins to the British Museum, and agreed to 
prepare some of the volumes of the British Museum Catalogue 
of Birds , relating to the groups to which he had paid special 
attention, these volumes being the eleventh in 1886, the 
fourteenth in 1888, the fifteenth in 1890, and half of the 
nineteenth in 1891. 
He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1861, 
and was also a Life-fellow of the Linnean, Geographical, and 
Geological Societies, and a Corresponding or Honorary 
Member of upwards of forty other scientific societies at home 
and abroad. Besides the works already alluded to, he 
published a Catalogue of American Birds , 1862, the Book of 
Antelopes in four quarto volumes (in conjunction with Mr. 
Oldfield Thomas), Exotic Ornithology (in conjunction with 
the late Osbert Salvin), Argentine Ornithology , and many 
other works. A complete list of these and of the papers 
