72 THE KNTOMOLOGIST. 



l)elieve have been placed in the Natural History Museum, South 

 Kensington, though the library remains at tlie house in Pont Street 

 where he died. Dr. Godman had visited the Black Sea coasts before 

 the Crimean War, and before he went to Trinity College, Cambridge. 

 In 1861 he joined his University and life-long friend Osbert Salvin 

 for the first time in the long-continued exploration of Central America, 

 the results of which are embodied in their joint monumental work, 

 the sixty-three volumes of the ' Biologia Centrali- Americana,' begun 

 in 1879, finished in 1915, and containing over nineteen thousand 

 descriptions of new species of many Orders. All branches of natural 

 history appealed to him. To him, and to Osbert Salvin, the 

 Ornithological Union and tlie 'Ibis' magazine owe their inception. 

 In his garden were gathered together alpine plants and flowering 

 trees from the Old World and the New. He was an enthusiastic 

 entomologist of the school which laid the firm foundations for 

 modern scientific research. But his writings outside the ' Biologia ' 

 are devoted chiefly to birds, either in the pages of the ' Ibis ' or in the 

 " Natural History of the x\zores,"or his monograph on the Petrel group. 

 He was elected a Fellow of the PiOyal Society in 1882, and later was 

 appointed a trustee of the British Museum. With one exception his 

 election to the Entomological Society of London pre-dates the whole 

 present list of Fellows, though there are one or two other names, I 

 think, included in the same year — 1865. He was President in 1891-2, 

 and Vice-President during six years, his last term of service on tlie 

 Council being served in 1900, and, until a few years since, he fre- 

 quently attended the meetings, especially when the exhibits included 

 collections made by travellers beyond the nearer European limits. On 

 the completion of the ' Biologia ' he was aw\arded the Gold Medal of 

 the Linnean Society. Meanwhile he had joined the Entomological 

 Society of France in 1880, and M. Charles Oberthiir has included his 

 portrait in the gallery of contemporary entomologists published in 

 his 'Lepidopterologie Comparee.' Nor w-ere his activities confined to 

 natural history and sport alone. As editor-in-chief of his magnum 

 ojnis he acquired a first-rate technical knowledge of printing and 

 plate-making ; he also was an expert on Oriental pottery and English 

 china. Personally he will be i-eniembered by all who came in contact 

 with him as among the kindest and courtliest of men, encouraging, 

 sympathetic, and generous. Dr. Godman's first wife was a sister of 

 Mr. H. J. Elwes, of Colesborne, with whom he had so many tastes 

 in common, alike in the fields of science and of sport. His second 

 wife. Dame Alice Godman, and two daughters survive him. He lies 

 in the churchyard of Cowfold, close to his Sussex home. 



H. R.-B. 



