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Dr. Godman was elected into our Society lOtli November, 1863, 

 and became I'Mi.S. in 1882 ; he also belonged lo the Geological and 

 Entomological Societies, was a Trustee of the Britisli Museum, 

 and D.r.L. (Oxon.). He married Edith Mary, daughter of the 

 late J. II. Ehves, of Colesi)ouriie. who died in 187;"), and secondly 

 Alice Mary, daughter of the late Major Percy Cha])lin, J. P., who 

 survives him. 



A portrait of our late Fellow will be found in the Introductory 

 Volume of the ' Biologia ' already mentioned. [B. D. J.] 



John Henry Lace, CLE., became a Fellow of our Society in 

 188^. He was born in 1857 and obtained the Diploma at the 

 National School of Forestry at Nancy in France in 1881, passing 

 out second of the English students of his year. He joined the 

 Forest Department in India at once and was posted to the Punjab, 

 in which Province he remained until 1900. In that Province, and 

 especially in the Himalayan Ranges of Chaniba, he not only did 

 excellent work in forest organization, but made large collections 

 and studied the botany of the mountain region. Part of his 

 Punjab service was spent in tlie investigation of the Forest Flora 

 of the then newly-organized Forest Circle of British Baluchistan, 

 and his extensive collections were sent home and resulted in the 

 publication by himself and Dr. Hemslev in our Volume xxviii. 

 (1891) of "A Sketch of the Vegetation of British Bahichistan," 

 which still remaiiis the chief authority on the Forest Flora of the 

 Quetta region. In 1900 he was transferred to Calcutta and 

 Simla as Assistant Inspector-General of Forests and Superin- 

 tendent of Working Plans, and lie naturally devoted his leisure to 

 a study of the Simla flora and the increase of his collections. 

 Id 1901 he became Conservator of Foi'ests in Bengal with head- 

 quarters at Darjeeling, where a hill flora of a different character 

 awaited his researches ; but it was later on, in 1904, on his 

 transfer to Burma, that he began the work that \^as the chief one 

 of his botanical career in India and with which his name will be 

 chiefly identifled. As a Conservator of Forests, and later as Chief 

 Conservator in Burma, he did very fine work'. As the writer of 

 a notice in the ' Indian Forester ' remarked, " he was a great 

 critic and was at times hard to please, but always helped in any- 

 thing that was sound and was an excellent man to serve under." 

 As the same writer went on to say, his chief interests were in 

 botanical study, especially in the Maymyo Hills and the Shan 

 States, and he prepared his useful and accurate " List of the 

 Trees, Shrubs and Climbers of Burma," which is now the standard 

 reference-book for Burma Forest Officers. At one time he 

 officiated as Principal of the Forest College at Dehra Dun, and 

 at another as Inspector-General of Foi-ests, returning thence to 

 Burma, which he again only left on his retirement in 1913. 



His large collections were distributed most generously, a nearly 

 complete set to Kew, others to the Calcutta Herbarium, and tha 



