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tliem having- a great love for Natural History, particularly Ornithology. His 

 close and life-long friendship with Salvin, terminating only with the death of 

 the latter in 1898, resulted in the initiation and subsequent publication ©f the 

 " Biologia," of which they were the joint Editors. This stupendous illustrated 

 work on the Natural History of a portion of Tropical America, certainly the 

 largest undertaking of the kind that has hitherto been published, the Zoology 

 alone extending to 52 volumes, of which no fewer than 38 are devoted to the 

 Insecta, was commenced in 1879 and finished in 1915. The volumes dealing 

 with the Aves and Rhopalocera were undertaken by the Editors themselves, 

 and as regards the Rhopalocera they were the first entomologists to study 

 and figure the J genital armature of the extremely numerous and perplexing 

 Central American Hesj)eriidae, 34 plates being devoted to these alone in the 

 " Biologia." The present writer was employed on this great enterprise from 

 its initiation, and for upwards of four years he travelled in CTuatemala and the 

 State of Panama, collecting material for it, subsequently acting as sub-editor 

 till the work was concluded. He owes his career as an entomologist entirely 

 to the encouragement, liberality, and friendship with Goduian, with whom he 

 remained in close association in his natural history woi'k for forty years. It is 

 a matter for sincere congratulation that Godnian lived to see the finish of this 

 great book, the work of carrying it on for seventeen years after Salvin's death 

 having been extremely onerous. His other work on Entomology, mostly written 

 in conjunction with Salvin and published in the Proceedings of the Zoological 

 and other Societies, deals mainly with Tropical American Rhopalocera, the first 

 paper being dated 1868, and the last, by himself alone, 1907, both contributed 

 to the " Annals and Mngazine of Natural History," and it may be noted here 

 that in the fiist article in Vol. I of the " Entomologist's INIonthly Magazine" 

 (June 1864) H. W. Bates described various new butterflies caytured by them 

 in Central America. In 1861 the two Editors of the '•'Biologia" made a 

 joint expeditii)n to Briti.sh HniKhuas and Guatemala, and long afterwards, 

 in 1888, Godman visited Me^ico alone, the results of these journeys con- 

 tributing largely to the material fir their book, 425 species of Rhopalocera 

 having been taken by one or other of them in Guntemala and Panama. 

 In 1865 Godman made a voyage to the Azore**, taking with him a well- 

 known Coleopterist, J. A. Brewer, and in 1870 published in an octavo 

 volume a detailed account of the Flora and Fauna of those interesting 

 Oceanic islands. The 212 species of beetles recorded from there, all named 

 by G. R. Crotch, were subsequently handed over to the British Museum. 

 In 1879 Godman made a collecting-trip to the Fiench, Italian, and Swiss 

 Alps, in company with 0. Salvin, II. J. Elwes, and W. A. Forbes, the last- 

 named entomologist contributing a paper on the subject to this Magazine in 

 April 1880, entitled "Three weeks' collecting in the Alps," in which 103 species 

 of buttertlies were stated to have been captured. 



Godman was a Fellow of the Royal, Linnean, Zoological, and many other 

 Societies, and Treasurer to the Ray Society for some years, and in 1891 and 

 1892 he was President of the Entomological Society of London, his Ftdlowship 

 dating back to 1865. As recently as May last he was awarded the Gold 

 Medal of the Linnean Society for his " Services to the Science of Natural 

 History." The whole of his zoological collections were presented to the British 

 Museum, of which, in 1896, he became a Tru.>^tee. Tiie Janson collection of 



