Dr. P. L. Sclater, F.R.S.

Abstract

ZOOLOGISTS throughout the world will join with their English brethren in lamenting the death on June 27—albeit at the advanced age of eighty-four—of Dr. Phillip Lutley Sclater, F.R.S. The second son of the late Mr. W. L. Sclater, of Hoddington House, Hants, the deceased naturalist was born in 1829, and received his education first at Winchester and subsequently at Corpus Christ! College, Oxford, where he graduated first class in mathematics, and subsequently became honorary fellow of his college. In 1855 he was called to the Bar as a member of Lincoln's Inn, and in 1875 he acted as private secretary to his brother, the Hon. G. Sclater-Booth (afterwards Lord Basing), when President of the Local Government Board. So early as 1850 he had commenced to write on zoology. Soon after his call to the Bar he devoted himself mainly to natural history, and he was elected secretary to the Zoological Society of London in 1859, which important post he retained till 1902, when advancing years led to his voluntary resignation.