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His first wife, a daughter of the late Mr. J. H. Elwes of 

 Colesboriie, Gloucestershire, died in 1875. His second wife, 

 now Dame Alice Godman, D.B.E,, is a daughter of the late 

 Major Percy Chaplin, and survives him with two daughters. 



We are indebted to Mr. H. J. Elwes, his brother-in-law, for 

 the following personal appreciation of Mr. F. Godman : — 



I first met Godman in 1866, when I joined the B. O. U., 

 and ever since have looked on him as my best and dearest 

 friend. I think that it was largely owing to his and Salviu's 

 example that 1 Avas able to Ijecome something more than an 

 egg-collector, and it was with Godman that I went in June 

 1866 to take a nest of the Honey-Buzzard, two or three 

 pairs of which then bred annually in the New Forest. The 

 story of the ingenious fraud Avliich was unsuccessfully played 

 on us by a notorious egg-collector, Avho was afterwards 

 burnt to death at Stoney Cross, within a mile of the place 

 where he showed us the nest, was known to many old Ibises 

 now departed, and was a standing joke against us for years. 

 Godman at that time was as keen a collector as John 

 Wolley himself, and in company with his brother walked 

 across Lapland from the Arctic coast to the Gulf of 

 Haparanda after tlie summer Avhich he spent at BodJi. 

 A few years later he and I spent a month in company with 

 Osbert Salvin and W. A. Forbes collecting butterflies in 

 the Alps, and 1 can say that he had as much interest in that 

 pursuit as he had in ornithology, and did much to encourage 

 me in what I still look on as a most attractive branch of 

 natural history. The collections which Salvin and he 

 commenced in Guatemala gradually grew, till they became 

 by far the most important that have ever been made from 

 Central America. 



Godman was always very fond of deerstalking, and in the 

 sixties used to stalk annually in the "Park'' of the Island 

 of Lewis, which he rented in company with the late Mr. A. 

 Bon ham-Carter, and he became a most accomplished stalker 

 and very deadly rifle-shot. Later on he rented the stalking 

 of a large sheep-farm in West Ross-shire in com})any with 



