| Authorised form of name | Sclater; Philip Lutley (1829 - 1913); lawyer and zoologist |
| Dates | 1829 - 1913 |
| Nationality | British |
| Place of birth | Tangier Park, Wootton St Lawrence, Hampshire, England |
| Date of birth | 04 November 1829 |
| Place of death | Odiham Priory, Hampshire, England |
| Date of death | 27/06/1913 |
| Occupation | Barrister and Zoology |
| Research field | Biogeography |
| Cladistics |
| Zoology |
| Ornithology |
| Activity | Education:
School at Twyford; Winchester College; Oxford University; Lincoln's Inn. MA, DSc
Career: Published in the journals of the Linnean and Zoological societies, his most important paper was 'On the general geographic distribution of the members of the class aves'; visited America where he travelled on foot and by birch-bark canoe as far as the Mississippi and met leading American naturalists (1856); travelled to North America, to north and south Africa, and to Europe; contributed four volumes to the Catalogue of Birds at the British Museum; improved the financial and scientific affairs of the Zoological Society of London (1859); responsibility for the Zoological Record (founded in 1864) was assumed by the Zoological Society on his initiative (1886); founded Ibis, the journal of the British Ornithologists' Union, which he edited (apart from the years 1865–77) until 1913 (1858); his large collection of nine thousand birds was transferred to the British Museum (1886); elected chairman of the British Ornithologists' Club (1892); described the okapi to western scientists although he never saw one alive (1901); His office at 11 Hanover Square became a meeting place for all naturalists in London, where travellers and residents shared notes with him and he corresponded; his administration of the zoological gardens was subject to mounting criticism prior to his retirement; retired (1902).
Memberships:
FLS; FZS; Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford |
| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 06/06/1861 |
| Age at election | 32 |
| Proposer | John Percy; Charles Darwin; John Gould; John Tomes; John Barlow; Francis Galton; Robert Hudson; Henry Wentworth Dyke Acland; Philip de Malpas Grey Egerton |
| Richard Owen; George Busk; John Lubbock; John Edward Gray; Joseph Dalton Hooker; Thomas Bell; Edwin Lankester; Edward William Brayley; Thomas Bell |
| Relationships | Parents: William Lutley Sclater, of Hoddington House, Upton Grey, Southampton, and Anne Maria, daughter of William Bowyer
Siblings: George Sclater-Booth (FRS 1876)
Spouse: Jane Ann Eliza, daughter of Sir David Hunter Blair (16 October 1862)
Children: one daughter and three sons, the eldest of whom, William Lutley (1863–1944), was also an ornithologist and succeeded his father as editor of Ibis (1913–30). |
| PublishedWorks | RCN 11006
RCN R63018
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| OtherInfo | Identified six zoogeographic regions of the world according to their bird life. This concept was developed by subsequent writers and Sclater's terminology remains in use to this day.
Influential in building up the Zoological Society, London.
Animals named after Aclater include:
Sclater's lemur (Eulemur flavifrons); Dusky-billed parrotlet (the name Psittacula sclateri Gray, 1859, is currently viewed as a subspecies of Forpus modestus Cabanis, 1848); Sclater's monal (Lopophorus sclateri); Erect-crested penguin (Eudyptes sclateri); Ecuadorian cacique (Cacicus sclateri); Mexican chickadee (Poecile sclateri); Bay-vented cotinga (Doliornis sclateri); Sclater's antwren (Myrmotherula sclateri); Sclater's lark (Spizocorys sclateri); Sclater's cassowary (Casuarius sclateri) ... now usually considered conspecific with the Dwarf Cassowary; Colombian longtail snake (Enuliophis sclateri). |
| Royal Society Obituary or Memoir | Click to view (may be contained within a meeting notice, presidential address or list of death notices) |
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| Source | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll; DSB
Obituaries:
Proc Roy Soc Series B 1913-1914 vol 87 pp iii-v signed by F D G
Notes:
Thomas Bell has signed election certificate twice |
| Virtual International Authority File | http://viaf.org/viaf/44414898 |
| Code | NA1406 |
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| NLB/6/583 | Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor William Henry Flower, Fellow of the Royal Society | 4 June 1892 |
| NLB/1/437 | Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Dr Philip Lutley Sclater | 30 March 1887 |
| NLB/25/125 | Copy letter from Theodore E James, to Dr Philip Lutley Sclater, Fellow of the Royal Society, 3 Hanover Square, W. | 16 October 1902 |
| MC/10/184 | Letter from John A [Alexander] Harvie-Brown, Dunipace, Falkirk, to P L [Philip Lutley] Sclater, Zoological Society rooms, Hanover Square | 29 December 1874 |
| NLB/2/356 | Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Dr Philip Lutley Sclater, Fellow of the Royal Society | 11 May 1888 |
| NLB/2/146 | Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Philip Lutley Sclater, Fellow of the Royal Society and Secretary of the Zoological Society | 31 January 1888 |
| NLB/4/22 | Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Dr Philip Lutley Sclater, Fellow of the Royal Society | 29 January 1890 |
| NLB/2/509 | Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Dr Philip Lutley Sclater, Fellow of the Royal Society | 23 July 1888 |
| NLB/6/349 | Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Dr Philip Lutley Sclater, Fellow of the Royal Society | 22 April 1892 |
| NLB/3/476 | Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Dr [Philip Lutley] Sclater, Fellow of the Royal Society | 18 June 1889 |
| NLB/5/145 | Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Dr [Philip Lutley] Sclater, Fellow of the Royal Society | 2 April 1891 |
| NLB/3/1060 | Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Mr Pilbeam | 2 January 1890 |
| NLB/5/313 | Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Dr Philip Lutley Sclater, Fellow of the Royal Society | 12 May 1891 |
| NLB/7/367 | Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Dr Philip Lutley Sclater, Fellow of the Royal Society, Chairman of the Scientific Relief Fund | 31 January 1893 |
| NLB/7/691 | Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Dr Philip Lutley Sclater, Fellow of the Royal Society | 11 April 1893 |
| NLB/7/373 | Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Dr Philip Lutley Sclater, Fellow of the Royal Society | 1 February 1893 |
| NLB/20/33 | Copy letter from Michael Foster, to Dr Philip Lutley Sclater, Fellow of the Royal Society | 19 January 1990 |
| NLB/7/709 | Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Dr Philip Lutley Sclater, Fellow of the Royal Society | 12 April 1893 |
| NLB/7/749 | Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Dr Philip Lutley Sclater, Fellow of the Royal Society | 18 April 1893 |
| NLB/8/157 | Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Dr Philip Lutley Sclater, Fellow of the Royal Society | 22 July 1893 |
| NLB/7/1035 | Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Dr Philip Lutley Sclater, Fellow of the Royal Society, Chairman of the Scientific Relief Committee | 19 June 1893 |
| NLB/8/597 | Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Sir John Evans, Treasurer, Royal Society | 22 November 1893 |
| NLB/8/634 | Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Dr Philip Lutley Sclater, Fellow of the Royal Society | 28 November 1893 |
| NLB/10/312 | Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt], Secretary, Royal Society; Michael Foster; [Andrew Ainslie] Common; [Philip Lutley] Sclater; [Percy Alexander] MacMahon; and [Wilfred Hudleston] Hudleston | 7 November 1894 |
| NLB/10/602 | Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Dr Philip Lutley Sclater, Fellow of the Royal Society | 2 January 1895 |
| NLB/9/401 | Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Dr Sclater, [Fellow of the Royal Society] | 11 May 1894 |
| NLB/11/336 | Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Doctor Philip Lutley Sclater, Fellow of the Royal Society | 6 June 1895 |
| NLB/13/74 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Dr Philip Lutley Sclater, Fellow of the Royal Society, Zoological Society, 3 Hanover Square, W. | 5 June 1896 |
| NLB/8/235 | Copy letter from Theodore E James, to Dr Philip Lutley Sclater, Fellow of the Royal Society | 5 August 1893 |
| NLB/12/457 | Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Alfred Newton, Fellow of the Royal Society, Magdalene College, Cambridge | 21 February 1896 |
| NLB/12/832 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Dr Philip Lutley Sclater, Fellow of the Royal Society | 14 May 1896 |
| NLB/15/75 | Copy letter from Michael Foster, to Dr Philip Lutley Sclater, Fellow of the Royal Society | 18 June 1897 |
| NLB/15/489 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Dr Philip Lutley Scalter, Fellow of the Royal Society | 13 October 1897 |
| NLB/15/480 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Dr Philip Lutley Sclater, Fellow of the Royal Society | 13 October 1897 |
| NLB/16/359 | Copy letter from Arthur William Rucker, to Sir Clements R Markham, President of the Royal Geographical Society | 21 March 1898 |
| NLB/19/654 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Philip Lutely Sclater, Fellow of the Royal Society, Zoological Society, 3 Hanover Square, W. | 17 November 1899 |
| NLB/21/602 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Dr Philip Lutley Sclater, Fellow of the Royal Society | 17 December 1900 |
| NLB/23/2/73 | Copy letter from Sir Michael Foster, to Philip Lutley Sclater, Fellow of the Royal Society | 22 May 1901 |
| NLB/32/241 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to [Messrs Harrison & Sons] | 5 February 1906 |
| NLB/34/190 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Dr Philip Lutley Sclater, Fellow of the Royal Society | 10 December 1906 |
| NLB/34/170 | Copy letter from Archibald Geikie, to [Philip Lutley] Sclater, [Fellow of the Royal Society] | 8 December 1906 |
| NLB/35/614 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Dr Philip Lutley Sclater, Fellow of the Royal Society | 19 June 1907 |
| NLB/36/763 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Dr Philip Lutley Sclater, Fellow of the Royal Society | 12 December 1907 |
| NLB/38/186 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Dr Philip Lutley Sclater, Fellow of the Royal Society | 24 June 1908 |
| NLB/41/289 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Dr Philip Lutley Sclater, Fellow of the Royal Society | 16 November 1909 |
| NLB/43/430 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Philip Lutley Sclater, Fellow of the Royal Society | 11 January 1911 |
| RR/10/22 | Referee's report by Philip Lutley Sclater, on a paper 'The embryology of monotremata and marsupialia.—Part I' by William Hay Caldwell | 18 July 1887 |
| RR/15/11 | Referee's report by Philip Lutley Scalter, on a paper 'The distribution of vertebrate animals in India, Ceylon & Burma' by William Thomas Blanford | 27 December 1900 |
| EC/1861/12 | Sclater, Philip Lutley: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| IM/Maull/004035 | Sclater, Philip Lutley | nd |
| NLB/2/69 | Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Philip Lutley Sclater, Fellow of the Royal Society | 3 January 1888 |
| NLB/8/689 | Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Dr Philip Lutley Sclater, Fellow of the Royal Society | 8 December 1893 |
| NLB/8/1028 | Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Dr Henry Woodward, Fellow of the Royal Society | 12 February 1894 |
| RR/6/204 | Letter from Philip Lutley Sclater, to George Gabriel Stokes, regarding a paper 'On fossil remains of equines from central and South America referable to Equus conversidens, Ow., Equus tan, Ow., and Equus arcidens, Ow' by Richard Owen | 23 March 1869 |
| MC/10/181 | Letter from Howard Samms, Bellair, Reigate, to P L [Philip Lutley] Sclater | 22 December 1874 |
| MC/10/179 | Letter from Edward R Alston, 3 Old Quebec Street, Portman Square, to P L [Philip Lutley] Sclater, 11 Hanover Square | 16 December 1874 |
| MC/10/199 | Letter from P L [Philip Lutley] Sclater, Zoological Society of London, 11 Hanover Square, London, to Professor [Thomas Henry] Huxley, [Secretary of the Royal Society] | 20 January 1875 |
| MC/10/172 | Letter from H W [Henry Wemyss] Feilden, Paymaster of the Royal Artillery, to Ph L [Philip Lutley] Sclater | 23 November 1874 |
| MC/10 | Volume 10 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society | July 1873-1876 |
| MS/427/357 | Copy letter from [Michael] Foster, Secretary of the Royal Society; to [Philip Lutley] Sclater, FRS, Secretary of the Zoological Society | 1 May 1884 |
| MC/13 | Volume 13 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society | 1884 |
| MC/13/38 | Letter from P L [Philip Lutley] Sclater, Secretary, Zoological Society of London, 11 Hanover Square, London, to [Thomas Henry] Huxley, President of the Royal Society | 31 March 1884 |
| AP/50/15 | Unpublished paper, 'On the geographical and geological relations of the fauna and flora of Palestine' by [Henry Baker] Tristram | 1868 |
| MC/16/263 | Letter from Philip Lutley Sclater, Zoological Society of London, 3 Hanover Square, to [Michael] Foster | 25 November 1895 |
| MC/16/252 | Letter from Philip Lutley Sclater, The Royal Society, Burlington House, London, to [Michael] Foster | 17 October 1895 |
| MC/14/46 | Letter from [Philip Lutley] Sclater, Zoological Society of London, to the Secretaries of the Royal Society | 8 June 1885 |
| MC/15/2 | Letter from [Philip Lutley] Scalter, Zoological Society of London, to [John] Evans | 5 January 1889 |
| MC/14 | Volume 14 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society | 1885-1888 |
| MC/15 | Volume 15 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society | 1889-1892 |
| MC/15/160 | Letter from [Philip Lutley] Sclater, Zoological Society of London, 3 Hanover Square, London, to the Secretaries of the Royal Society | 26 March 1891 |
| MC/17 | Volume 17 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society | 1897-1899 |