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partnership which lasted until the tleatli of Salvin in 

 1898. 



Godman and his brother Percy attended the meetings 

 of the ornithologists in Alfred Newton's rooms in 1857 and 

 1858, when Edward Newton, Sclater, Simpson (who after- 

 Avards took the name of Hiidleston and was a distinguished 

 geologist), Woliey, Salvin, Edward Taylor, and Tristram 

 were also present, and when it was finally resolved to found 

 the British Ornithologists' Union. 



After leaving the University Godman began his more 

 serious bird-collecting travels. His first expedition was to 

 Bodo, in the north of Norway, in company with his brother 

 Percy, in 1857, when he visited John Woliey in Lapland and 

 travelled through Sweden and parts of Russia. An account 

 of this journey appeared in 'The Ibis' for 1861. In his 

 second journey he accompanied Salvin to Guatemala, where 

 the latter had already been in 1857 and 1859. This expe- 

 dition was planned in order to investigate the fauna and 

 flora of Central America with a view of throwing some light 

 on the problems of geographical distribution and its bearing 

 on evolution, in which subject the recent publication of 

 Darwin's ' Origin of Species ' had aroused great interest. 



After spending three weeks in Jamaica the tw^o travellers 

 lauded at Belize in British Honduras, and thence, taking 

 passage in a coasting schooner, reached Yzabal on the Golfo 

 Dolce. Here they remained a few days, making prepara- 

 tions for the journey and engaging Indians and mules to 

 transport themselves and their luggage to the interior. 



Crossing the Mico range, a few days were spent at 

 Quirigua, where the great Howling Monkey (^Mycetes) which 

 frequents the dense forest in troops, making night hideous 

 with its hoAvls, was first met with. Some time was also 

 spent in photographing the Indian ruins and exploring the 

 forest in the vicinity. In those days there were no dry 

 plates, and everyone had to carry wnth him the materials 

 for preparing and developing his own plates, and the whole 

 apparatus was exceedingly cumbrous and difficult to manage. 

 From Quirigua the mule-track was followed through the 



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