The death of this well-known and highly-respected ornithologist and entomologist took place suddenly, though not altogether unexpectedly, at Hawksfold, near Haslemere, on June 1st, from an old-established heart disease, which had been borne stoically and contemplated cheerfully. He was born at Finchley in 1835, and was the only surviving son of Mr. Anthony Salvin, a well-known architect. Shortly after graduating at Cambridge as Senior Optime in the Mathematical Tripos of 1857, he made a Natural History Expedition to Tunis and Algeria, in the company of Mr. W. H. Hudleston and Mr. (now Canon) Tristram, both of whom survive. In the autumn of the same year he made the first expedition to a country with which his life's work was to be largely associated; this was his visit to Guatemala, where he stayed chiefly in company with the late Mr. G.U. Skinner, the well-known collector of orchids, till the middle of 1858, revisiting the same region in about a year, and for a third time in 1861, in company with his friend and future coadjutor, Mr. F.D. Godman. After his marriage, in 1865, he with his wife made a fourth journey to Central America. There can be no doubt that these expeditions incited the project and prepared the way for the publication of 'Biologia Centrali-Americana,' of which 142 parts have already appeared, and which is still unfinished.
From the foundation of the Strickland Curatorship in the University of Cambridge, in 1874, Mr. Salvin accepted and held that office until 1883, when he succeeded to the family estate. As an ornithologist, he edited the third series of the 'Ibis,' of which he was one of the founders; was author of a 'Catalogue of the Strickland Collection' in the Cambridge Museum; to the British Museum Catalogue of Birds he contributed the enumeration of the Trochilidæ and Procellaridæ; completed and arranged the late Lord Lilford's 'Coloured Figures of British Birds,' and
