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Holland, and even in those countries is said to occur very rarely. I have 

 never seen a Continental specimen of it myself. Nor have I seen the 

 larva, hut it is said to diifer from that of laricis in not having a white 

 line on each side of the dark central dorsal strijje, or " food-canal." 



July iQth 1919. 



3Iemorinl to the late Frederick Die Cane Godinoji, D.C.L., F.li.S. — A. 

 Committee lias been formed under the chairmauship of Lord RotbscJiild, 

 F.li.S., to establish a memorial to the late Frederick Du Cane Godman, F.R.S., 

 in ackuowledginent of his lifelong devotion to the interests of natural history 

 and in grateful testimony of the many valuable benefits conferred by him in 

 promoting the study of natural science in this country. At a meeting of the 

 Committee held at the Natural History Museum on the .30th April last, it was 

 resolved that the memorial should take, primaril}'^, the form of a bronze tablet 

 with medallion portraits of Mr. Godman and of the late Mr. Osbert Salvin, 

 Mr. Godman's lifelong friend and collaborator in all his scientific enterprises, 

 and that this tablet, with a suitable inscription, should be offered to the 

 Trustees of the Bi'itish Museum, to be placed in the Natural History Museum 

 at South Kensington. The Committee hope to be in a position to do something 

 additional to perpetuate the memory of Mr. Godman, by helping to establish a 

 less local form of memorial. It is the intention of Dame Alice Godman and 

 her two daughters to found an Exploration Fund in the interests of the 

 Natural History Museum. For this purpose they have offered to establish a 

 Trust with the sum ol £5000, the proceeds of which are to be devoted to 

 making collections for the advancement of science and for the benefit of the 

 Museum. This fund is to be called the " Godman Memorial Exploration 

 Fund." Dame Alice's project has met with the warm approval of the 

 Trustees of the British Museum. The Committee, therefore, propose that any 

 amount received by them over and above that required for the bronze tablet 

 shall be added to the Exploration Fund. They also hope that this may form 

 a permanent basis for future donations and bequests for the same purpose. 

 Mr. Godman's work is too well known to need any lengthy exposition. The 

 "Biologia" certainly constitutes the greatest single work in natural history 

 even planned and carried out by private individuals, and rivals such national 

 undertakings as the " Challenger Report," which, of course, was financed by 

 the British Government. The whole of the vast natural history collections on 

 which the "Biologia" was based were presented by Messrs. Godman and Salvin, 

 and (after the death of Mr, Salvin) by Mr. Godman, to the nation, unfettered 

 by any stipulations, and these collections are now in the British Museum of 

 Natural History. But Mr. Godman's services to science do not rest alone on 

 the publication of his great work. The value of his gifts to the Natural 

 History Museum, apart from the "Biologia" material, must amount to many 

 thousands of pounds, and he was ever ready to help any undertaking for the 

 henelit of his beloved science. An appeal to him invariably brought forth a 

 favourable response. The Committee confidently ask for funds to carrj'out the 



