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obtained. They were always in hopes of finding the Great 

 Copper Butterfly^ but, in consequence of the extensive 

 drainage of the Fens, it proved to have become extinct. 

 Godman relates that he m'cU remembers his delight at being 

 shown two large drawers full of this fine insect by Brown, 

 the tailor on King's Parade, also an ardent entomologist, 

 Avho liad captured them with his own hand. 



In the spring of 1855, in company Avith Herbert Duck- 

 Avorth, Godman Avent to Italy, and, after visiting Rome and 

 Naples, proceeded alone to the Crimea, where he stayed for 

 some weeks with his brother, now Major-General Godman, 

 then a Captain in the 5th Dragoon Guards, and Avhile there 

 witnessed from the heights above Sevastopol the capture of 

 the Manielon by the French troops, and that of the Rifle Pits 

 by the English ; he aftei'Avards saw the unsuccessful attack 

 on the Malakoff, but left a few days before the second and 

 final attack, which ended in its capture and the evacuation 

 of Sevastopol by the Russians. 



The first serious bird-collecting expedition was made in the 

 summer of 1857, for, having met with an accident and broken 

 his leg in the hunting-field during the winter, Godman 

 was obliged to forego an earlier trip Avith Tristram, Simpson 

 (Hudleston), and Sahnn on their interesting expedition to 

 Algeria. But he Avas able later to go with his brother 

 Percy, also an original member of the B.O.U., to Bodo in 

 the north of Norway, where they remained some Aveeks and 

 made a good collection of birds and eggs, including four or 

 five nests of the Great Snipe. Thence proceeding north- 

 wards to the Alten River, they crossed the mountains to 

 Muonioniska, where they paid John WoUey a visit, and Avere 

 taken by him to see a Crane's nest situated in the middle 

 of a large marsh, to which they Avaded up to their waists iu 

 mud and water, though perfectly aware that the young birds 

 had already left the place. They next went down the 

 Tornea River to Haparanda and by steamer to Stockholm 

 and St, Petersburg, visiting Moscow and Nijni Novgorod 

 before returning home. An account of the early part of this 

 trip appeared in ' The Ibis ' for 1861. 



