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which, he wrote in the Proceedings and Journals of various 
Learned Societies and in other periodicals will be found in 
No. 49 of the Bulletin of the United States National Museum. 
In 1896 the number of his publications amounted to 1239 ; 
some few more have since been added to the list. Needless 
to say, however, hardly anything of his work, beyond the 
editing of the Ibis , and his share in the B.O.U. List (1883) 
bears upon British birds. 
After he resigned the Secretaryship of the Zoological 
Society in 1903 (after forty- three years’ tenure of that 
important post), Sclater resided entirely at his house in 
Hampshire, Odiham Priory, where he died on June 27, 1913. 
He married in 1862 and had six children, of whom four 
are still living. One of them — William Lutley Sclater — is 
well known as an ornithological writer. 
1862. On the supposed occurrence of the American Kill-deer Plover in this 
country. (Ibis, pp. 275-7.) 
1879. Remarks on the Nomenclature of the British Owls, and on the 
arrangement of the Order Striges. (Ibis, pp. 346-52.) 
1883. [One of the Committee for.] A List of British Birds, compiled by 
a Committee of the B.O.U. London : 1883. 
(See under British Ornithologists’ Union.) 
1897. Article “ Ornithology ” in Deacon’s Hants and Dorset Court Guide 
and County Blue Booh. 
1905. On the generic name for the Nightingale. (Bull. B.Q.C. xvi. 
pp. 39-41.) 
Scott (M. K. C.). See Henderson (J. A.) 
Sealy (Alfred Forbes), 1831-94 
Alfred Forbes Sealy was born at Clevedale, near Bristol, 
on October 25, 1831. He was educated at Clapham under 
the Rev. C. Pritchard, and at Caius College, Cambridge, 
B.A. 1854, M.A. 1857. For some years he continued to 
reside at 70 Trumpington Street, Cambridge, and then left 
for the East, to become Principal of the Rajah’s High School 
at Ernacullum in Southern India. He was one of the 
founders of the British Ornithologists’ Union. He possessed 
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