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  Obituary 
  Notices 
  of 
  Fellows 
  deceased. 
  

  

  begin 
  with 
  birds 
  and 
  butterflies. 
  Most 
  of 
  them 
  under 
  the 
  influence 
  of 
  

   classical 
  teachers 
  are 
  taught 
  to 
  consider 
  such 
  pursuits 
  as 
  trivial, 
  and 
  when 
  

   they 
  grow 
  older 
  they 
  drop 
  them 
  as 
  being 
  boyish. 
  But 
  as 
  Godnian 
  pointed 
  

   out 
  in 
  his 
  address, 
  when 
  speaking 
  of 
  the 
  late 
  H. 
  W. 
  Bates, 
  F.B.S., 
  the 
  com- 
  

   bination 
  of 
  qualities 
  necessary 
  to 
  make 
  a 
  good 
  traveller, 
  a 
  good 
  collector, 
  and 
  

   a 
  good 
  observer, 
  all 
  of 
  which 
  Godman 
  himself 
  possessed 
  to 
  a 
  high 
  degree, 
  

   " 
  are 
  of 
  special 
  value 
  at 
  the 
  present 
  day, 
  when 
  it 
  is 
  the 
  practice 
  of 
  some 
  to 
  

   extol 
  certain 
  branches 
  of 
  our 
  subject, 
  and 
  to 
  decry 
  others 
  ; 
  to 
  exalt 
  generali- 
  

   sations, 
  and 
  to 
  depreciate 
  the 
  drier 
  and 
  less 
  attractive 
  labours 
  of 
  the 
  

   systematise" 
  And 
  as 
  I 
  tried 
  to 
  point 
  out 
  in 
  my 
  own 
  Presidential 
  Address 
  

   to 
  the 
  same 
  Society 
  in 
  1895, 
  this 
  tendency, 
  which 
  seems 
  to 
  be 
  increasing 
  

   amongst 
  botanists 
  as 
  well 
  as 
  zoologists, 
  has 
  a 
  bad 
  influence 
  on 
  many 
  young 
  

   men 
  who 
  are 
  encouraged 
  by 
  the 
  example 
  of 
  their 
  teachers 
  to 
  neglect 
  that 
  

   exact 
  knowledge 
  of 
  the 
  objects 
  they 
  study, 
  which 
  can 
  only 
  be 
  attained 
  by 
  

   collecting. 
  Generalisations, 
  so 
  often 
  based 
  on 
  imperfect 
  knowledge 
  of 
  

   classification 
  and 
  geographical 
  distribution, 
  can 
  only 
  be 
  attempted 
  with 
  

   success 
  by 
  the 
  few 
  men 
  whose 
  brain 
  power 
  is 
  much 
  above 
  the 
  average. 
  

   Godman 
  was 
  not 
  such 
  a 
  man, 
  and 
  never 
  pretended 
  to 
  be, 
  but 
  by 
  his 
  own 
  

   work, 
  life 
  and 
  example, 
  he 
  made 
  it 
  possible 
  for 
  others 
  to 
  do 
  such 
  work 
  at 
  a 
  

   future 
  period, 
  by 
  providing 
  and 
  describing 
  the 
  material 
  on 
  which 
  alone 
  they 
  

   can 
  safely 
  rely. 
  It 
  is 
  certain 
  that 
  an 
  accurate 
  knowledge 
  of 
  the 
  obscure 
  

   and 
  difficult 
  orders 
  of 
  insects, 
  which 
  have 
  in 
  the 
  past 
  materially 
  obstructed 
  

   the 
  progress 
  of 
  colonisation 
  in 
  our 
  tropical 
  possessions 
  and 
  colonies, 
  can 
  only 
  

   be 
  obtained 
  by 
  the 
  encouragement 
  of 
  such 
  work 
  as 
  has 
  been 
  done 
  and 
  is 
  

   being 
  done 
  'by 
  men, 
  who 
  have 
  no 
  professional 
  scientific 
  training, 
  but 
  have 
  

   devoted 
  themselves 
  to 
  science 
  in 
  their 
  thirst 
  for 
  knowledge. 
  

  

  The 
  close 
  friendship 
  which 
  Godman 
  formed 
  at 
  Cambridge 
  with 
  Salvin 
  has 
  

   been 
  well 
  described 
  by 
  the 
  late 
  Prof. 
  Newton 
  in 
  his 
  obituary 
  notice 
  of 
  the 
  

   latter 
  (cf. 
  ' 
  Eoy. 
  Soc. 
  Proc..' 
  vol. 
  44, 
  March, 
  1899) 
  ; 
  this 
  developed 
  later 
  into 
  

   a 
  lifelong 
  scientific 
  partnership, 
  which 
  is 
  unique 
  in 
  the 
  annals 
  of 
  zoological 
  

   science, 
  and 
  enabled 
  them 
  to 
  do 
  together 
  what 
  neither 
  man 
  could 
  have 
  done 
  

   alone. 
  For 
  though 
  it 
  was 
  at 
  Godman's 
  expense 
  that 
  the 
  collections 
  were 
  

   acquired, 
  they 
  were, 
  together 
  with 
  the 
  library, 
  held 
  in 
  common, 
  and 
  they 
  

   continued 
  their 
  close 
  association 
  and 
  intimate 
  friendship 
  after 
  Salvin's 
  

   marriage 
  in 
  1865 
  and 
  until 
  his 
  death 
  in 
  1898. 
  

  

  Though 
  Salvin 
  had 
  probably 
  a 
  deeper 
  insight 
  into 
  the 
  difficult 
  questions 
  of 
  

   classification, 
  and 
  was 
  able 
  in 
  many 
  ways 
  to 
  inspire 
  Godman's 
  work, 
  yet 
  no 
  

   one 
  could 
  ever 
  say 
  that 
  either 
  partner 
  took 
  a 
  lead, 
  or 
  that 
  their 
  respective 
  

   shares 
  in 
  their 
  joint 
  work 
  were 
  not 
  carried 
  on 
  without 
  the 
  least 
  shade 
  of 
  

   difference 
  or 
  dissent. 
  

  

  On 
  leaving 
  Cambridge 
  Godman 
  began 
  his 
  ornithological 
  travels. 
  His 
  first 
  

   expedition 
  was 
  with 
  his 
  brother 
  Percy 
  (now 
  the 
  sole 
  survivor 
  of 
  the 
  original 
  

   members 
  of 
  the 
  British 
  Ornithological 
  Union) 
  to 
  the 
  north 
  of 
  Norway, 
  when 
  

   he 
  visited 
  John 
  Wolley, 
  the 
  greatest 
  oologist 
  of 
  his 
  day, 
  in 
  Lapland, 
  and 
  

   walked 
  across 
  that 
  country 
  on 
  his 
  way 
  to 
  Sweden 
  and 
  Bussia. 
  An 
  account 
  of 
  

  

  