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he and Salvin employed for the collecting of insects and other 

 specimens for the Biologia were G. C. Champion, H. Rogers, 

 E. Arce, \Y. B. Richardson, F. B. Armstrong, W. Lloyd and 

 M. Trujillo. 



All of these collections were subsequently presented to the 

 British Museum of Natural History, of which Dr. Godman 

 became a trustee. Some indication of their extent has been 

 given in the NEWS for May, 1916, page 196. 



From very early days Godman exhibited an intense love of 

 sport hunting, fishing, shooting and stalking; he often fol- 

 lowed the hounds. He keenly enjoyed horticulture and he 

 collected ceramic ware. 



Oxford made him a D.C.L. ; he was a fellow of the Royal 

 Society, President of the Entomological Society of London 

 (1891-2), and of the British Ornithologists' Union, etc. 



His great contribution to biology is the series of volumes 

 forming the Biologia Centrali- Americana, accounts of which 

 have been given in the NEWS for December, 1905, and May, 

 1916, and we have expressed our appreciation thereof editori- 

 ally in the latter number. It is not superfluous to recall here 

 and now that, in conjunction with Salvin and others, he wrote 

 the volumes on Lepidoptera Rhopalocera and on Birds, as well 

 as a large part of the Introductory Volume ; in the treatment 

 of the Hesperidae he made much use of characters drawn 

 from the male genitalia. 



The most recent letter which the writer received from Dr. 

 Godman is dated December 4, 1915, and reads, in part: 



Very many thanks for your kind letter of congratulations on the 

 completion of the "Biologia." Of course, after so many years, I am 

 glad to see it finished. Had it not been for the kind assistance I have 

 had from the large number of contributors, nearly all of which has 

 been gratuitous, it could not have been done. 



As one of those contributors, with the recollections of 

 nearly ten years of my early manhood largely devoted to a 

 small part of the Bioloyhi, I feel with the passing of Dr. God- 

 man whom, alas, T never met personally as if a certain por- 

 tion of my own life also had passed away. 



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