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regret he felt, that his comrade for forty-four years, Osbert 

 Salvin — " more than a brother to me," as he .said to the present 

 writer on Salvin's death in 1898 — was not with him to acliieve 

 the completion and siiare in the appreciation of their great work. 



Few men liave had greater opportunities than Gochiiaii, and 

 none can liave used them more fruitfully. And this was not only 

 true in the distinction and the extent of his contributions to 

 science, of which the world knows, but also quietly in acts of kind- 

 ness and in sympathy. Such were the subjects of his corre- 

 spondence with me in recent years, the last only a few days before 

 his death. 



Here in the Linneaii Societ}' we shall long remember his tall 

 erect figure, his tine intellectual head, and his unfailing courtesy. 



[E. B. POULTON.] 



For the sake of those who cannot readily turn to the Introduc- 

 tory Volume of Grodman and tSalvin's ' Biologia,' the following 

 brief account may be of interest : — 



Dr. Godman was the third son of Joseph Godman, of Park 

 Hatch, Surrey, was born in January 1834, and at the age of ten 

 went to Eton, but an attack of " low fever " three years later 

 compelled his retirement, so that for some years he was quite 

 unable to work. His education was continued under tutors till 

 he was eighteen, and then he travelled to the Mediterranean and 

 Black Sea. In 1853 he entered Trinity College, Cambridge, and 

 there formed that friendship with Osbert Salvin which ended 

 only with Salvin's death in 1898 (Proc. Linn. Soc. 1898-99, 

 pp. 59-61). 'The Ibis' was started by a group of friends in 

 Alfred Newton's rooms at Magdalene College in 1858, as the organ 

 of the British Ornithologists' Union then founded. 



Mr. Salvin paid a visit to Central America in 1857 with 

 Geo. Ure Skinner, and what he then saw so whetted his appetite 

 that he paid a second visit to Guatemala early in 1859 ; Godman 

 joined Salvin on his third expedition in August 1861. A trip to 

 the Azores in 1865 was followed by his well-known volume 

 ' Natural History of the Azores ' in 1870, to which H. C. Watson 

 contributed the botany. 



The joint collections of the tuo friends having been accom- 

 modated in various abodes, at last found a permanent home at 

 10 Chaudos Street, Cavendish Square till tlie death of Salvin. 

 In 19(»7 the house was given up, the library removed to Godman's 

 house in Pont Street, and the collections handed over to the 

 British Museum. 



The publication of the great work by which the two friends will 

 ever be celebrated was begun in 1879 and was closed in 1915, an 

 array of 63 (puirto volumes. "When the ideal author-partnership 

 M-as fevered in 1898, 141 parts of Zoology, completing 13 volumes, 

 5 volumes of Botany and 9 parts of Archaeology had been pub- 

 lished ; the remaining 74 of Zoology, and 8 parts of Arclueology 

 being completed under Dr. (^odman's care. 



