Philip Sclater
Lawyer and zoologist
Philip Lutley Sclater FRS FRGS FZS FLS was an English lawyer and zoologist. In zoology, he was an expert ornithologist, and identified the main zoogeographic regions of the world. He was Secretary of the Zoological Society of London for 42 years,... Wikipedia
Born: November 4, 1829, Wootton Saint Lawrence, United Kingdom
Died: June 27, 1913 (age 83 years), Odiham, United Kingdom
Grandchildren: Elizabeth Flora Lutley Sclater, Claude Edward Lutley Sclater, Susan Muriel Sclater, and more
Children: William Lutley Sclater, Bertram Lutley Sclater, Arthur Lutley Sclater, and more
Parents: William Lutley Sclater and Anna Maria Bowyer
Sclater, who based his division of the terrestrial world on the distributions of birds. In the 1870s the biologist Adolf Engler devised a schema based on plant ...
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Elected a fellow of the Zoological Society of London in 1850, Sclater became a member of its Council in 1857 and its secretary in 1860, a post he held for forty ...
He was for many years on the Council of the Royal Geographical Society, being Honorary Secretary from 1931 to 1944, and wrote many scholarly reviews in its ...
English zoologist, ornithologist, and lawyer (1829-1913)