1319.] g^ 



Ulateridae {mchidiug tliat of Candeze), acquirod for the study of the Central 

 American forms, was also given by him to that Institution. 



Godmau will need no otlier memorial than the " Biologia." Yet though 

 he gave himself heart and soul to this great work, sparing no labour or expense 

 in its production, he was no literary recluse or mere hobby-rider. His greatest 

 wish was to foster the love of knowledge, and the value of scientific training 

 was ever present to his mind. Natural Science, not alone Zoology, was the 

 dominating influence of his life, and his receptive well-balanced mind coupled 

 with an extraordinary power of observation enabled him to acquire a breadth 

 of knowledge given to few. He was the least ostentatious of men ; in evidence 

 of this it may here be stated that his many gifts made in the interest of science 

 Wire invariably without restriction or stipulation as to the association of his 

 name in connection with them. Apart from the great value of these dona- 

 tions to the Museum, their scientific worth was enormously enhanced by being- 

 incorporated in the classified collections, a work Avhich has been carried out 

 — partly at his own expense — over a long period of yeais. His help was ever 

 unobtrusively given and his sympathetic interest in the lives of others will cause 

 his memory to be held in afl'ectionale remembrance. In truth, Godman was one 

 of those of whom it may be said — " He prayeth well who loveth well, both man 

 and bird and beast." He married in 1872 Edith Mary Elwes of Colesborne, 

 Cheltenham, who died in 1875, and, in 1891, Alice Mary Chaplin, leaving 

 two daughters by the second wife. In the dedication to the " Introductory 

 Volume " of the " Biologia " he acknowledges the great assistance and 

 sympathy given him by his wife, now I)ame Alice Godman, in the completion 

 of the work. The portrait accompanying this notice is reproduced from a 

 photograph taken by Van Dyck about 1907. — G. C. 0. 



William Denison Roebuck. — By the death of William Uenison Roebuck, 

 at the age of 68, which took place on February 15tli last, Yorkshire has lost 

 one of its best and most prominent naturalists ; and by not many will his 

 loss be felt more than by the writer of this notice, who was closely associated 

 with him for forty or more years in Natural History work. 



Although best known as a Concliologist — he was a high authority on 

 Limacology, — Roebuck from his youth took a very great interest in insects, 

 and few have done more for Entomological Science in Yorkshire than he. At 

 one time he was greatly interested in British Hymenoptera, and was respon- 

 sible for the list of that group in the Victoria History of Yorkshire, as he 

 also was for the entire Entomological chapters in the Victoria Histories of 

 some of the other northern counties of England. 



He was rarely, if ever, absent from the meetings — even committee 

 meetings— of the Entomological Section of the Yorkshire Naturalists' Union^ 

 and only at the Annual Meeting of the Section in October last undertook to 

 compile for publication a list of the Heiniptera of the county. For a great 

 part of his life he had kept records, with references, of all the papers and notes, 

 not only to all orders of insects, but to all the other branches of natural history 

 referring to Yorkshire and adjoining counties — when he could do so, cutting- 

 out the papers and notes themselves, and filing those of the various authors 

 separately, He was thus able at any moment to turn to any information 



