The Strickland Curatorship in the University of Cambridge

Abstract

THE Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge has approved the nomination, by Miss Frances Strickland, of Apperley Court, of Mr. Osbert Salvin, F.R.S., to the office of “Strickland Curator,” lately founded and endowed by that lady, and the Museum of that University will therefore reap the benefit of having attached to it one of the best English ornithologists of the day. Mr. Salvin, being then a scholar of Trinity Hall, graduated in mathematical honours in 1857, and immediately afterwards proceeded to join Mr. (now Canon) Tristram in the natural history researches he was making in Algeria, the important results of which are known to many of our readers. In the following autumn he sailed for Central America, and there began that series of scientific observations which has made him the chief authority on the zoology of that part of the world. How many times he has since visited it we cannot say, but he only returned from his last expedition some two months ago, and he has besides been all the while well occupied. In addition to the many papers he has published, mostly on the birds of the Neotropical Region, he has, in conjunction with Mr. Sclater, brought out an illustrated “Exotic Ornithology,” intended as a sequel to the celebrated works of Daubenton and Temminck, and in 1870 was chosen editor of the Ibis, the leading ornithological periodical of the world.