14 MEMOIROF 



for several years, during which time he wrote many 

 valuable papers on scientific subjects, and published 

 his celebrated work, " The Natural History of Ame- 

 rican Quadrupeds/' which has attained deserved 

 popularity. 



The fame of Dr. Godman as a teacher of anatomy 

 was now widely spread, and he was solicited to accept 

 the professorship of that branch in the Rutgers Medi- 

 cal College at New York. His practice soon became 

 extensive, and the affairs of the college prosperous, 

 when, in the midst of his second course of lectures, 

 a severe cold settled on his lungs, accompanied by a 

 copious hemorrhage, and compelled him to abandon 

 his pursuits, and flee for his life to a milder region. 

 He sailed for the West Indies, and passed the re- 

 mainder of the winter and spring in the island of 

 Santa Cruz. Returning after this to Philadelphia, 

 he took a house in Germantown, and by the labours 

 of his pen, continued to support his family. His 

 consumptive disease continued, though for a time so 

 far mitigated, that his friends flattered themselves 

 his life was yet to be spared to science and his 

 country. At this time he says of himself: "At 

 present, that I am comparatively well, my literary 

 occupations form my chief pleasure; and all the 

 regret I experience is, that my strength is so inade- 

 quate to my wishes. Should my health remain as it 

 is now, I shall do very well ; and I cannot but hope, 

 since we have recently passed through a severe spell 

 of cold weather without my receiving any injury. 

 All my prospects as a public teacher of anatomy are 



