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liim, the delight of watching and studying the habits of the 

 Avild animals added greatly to his enjoyment_, and whether 

 it was the pursuit of a fox or a stag, or the capture of a 

 rare bird or scarce butterfly, each in turn afforded him 

 equal pleasure. 



Besides the expeditions already referred to, Godman made 

 others to India with H. J. Elwes, where they spent some 

 time in Native Sikkim, afterwards visiting the Madras 

 Presidency and Ceylon. In addition to the before-mentioned 

 journeys to Egypt and South Africa, he, accompanied by his 

 wife, also visited Jamaica a second time, Spain, Italy, 

 Sicily, Greece, Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Switzerland, 

 and the Netherlands ; but as these expeditions were not 

 primarily devoted to natural history, no special mention is 

 here made of them. 



When not engaged in scientific work Godman experienced 

 a '[keen sense of enjoyment in horticulture, and in his 

 garden in Sussex many rare and interesting plants are 

 to 'be found. Though warmly appreciating all works of 

 art, special attention has been paid to ceramics, and his 

 collection of early Persian and Hispano-Moresque lustre, 

 as well as of Rhodian and Damascus ware, is widely known. 

 As will have been seen, Godman was author — or joint 

 author with Salvin — of the ' Biologia Centrali- Americana/ 

 'The Azores/ and of many papers in 'The Ibis,' chiefly on 

 the birds of Central and South America, of others in the 

 ' Proceedings of the Zoological Society,' the ' Annals and 

 Magazine of Natural History/ and the ' Proceedings of the 

 Entomological Society/ on Lepidoptera. 



He is D.C.L. (Oxford), F.R.S., F.L.S., F.G.S., F.R.G.S., 

 F.E.S. (of which he was President for some years), F. Soc. 

 Antiquaries, Memb. Royal Inst., a Trustee of the British 

 Museum, Memb. B.O.U. (Secretary from 1870 to 1882 and 

 from 1889 to 1897, President from 1896). 



