﻿VI 
  

  

  Obituary 
  Notices 
  of 
  Fellows 
  deceased. 
  

  

  specialise 
  sufficiently, 
  in 
  order 
  to 
  publish 
  what 
  is 
  now 
  considered 
  to 
  be 
  the 
  

   necessary 
  amount 
  of 
  original 
  work. 
  I 
  feel 
  sure 
  that 
  the 
  Society 
  would 
  gain 
  

   if 
  more 
  men 
  of 
  the 
  Godman 
  type 
  could 
  be 
  led 
  to 
  believe 
  that 
  the 
  Fellowship 
  

   of 
  the 
  Society 
  is 
  not 
  closed 
  to 
  them. 
  

  

  As 
  a 
  Trustee 
  of 
  the 
  British 
  Museum, 
  Godman 
  probably 
  had 
  a 
  wider 
  know- 
  

   ledge 
  of 
  the 
  needs 
  and 
  working, 
  certainly 
  in 
  the 
  Natural 
  History 
  part, 
  than 
  

   anyone 
  else, 
  and 
  he 
  spared 
  no 
  time 
  or 
  trouble 
  in 
  keeping 
  himself 
  in 
  close 
  

   touch 
  with 
  it. 
  He 
  was 
  keenly 
  alive 
  to 
  the 
  disadvantages 
  of 
  the 
  Civil 
  Service 
  

   system 
  when 
  applied 
  to 
  such 
  appointments, 
  holding 
  that 
  work 
  was 
  better 
  

   done 
  and 
  the 
  interests 
  of 
  the 
  Nation 
  best 
  served, 
  by 
  the 
  payment 
  of 
  good 
  

   salaries 
  rather 
  than 
  by 
  advancement 
  by 
  seniority 
  and 
  deferred 
  pay 
  in 
  the 
  

   shape 
  of 
  a 
  pension. 
  He 
  never 
  ceased 
  to 
  deplore 
  the 
  loss 
  of 
  valuable 
  time 
  

   incurred 
  by 
  the 
  amount 
  of 
  clerical 
  work 
  expected 
  of 
  heads 
  of 
  Departments, 
  

   whose 
  time 
  for 
  scientific 
  work 
  was 
  correspondingly 
  decreased. 
  

  

  Godman 
  was 
  devoted 
  to 
  sport, 
  especially 
  hunting, 
  fishing, 
  and 
  deer- 
  

   stalking, 
  and 
  in 
  his 
  youth 
  to 
  rowing 
  and 
  swimming. 
  Two 
  of 
  his 
  feats 
  in 
  this 
  

   direction 
  are 
  worthy 
  of 
  mention, 
  namely, 
  the 
  crossing 
  of 
  the 
  Hellespont 
  and 
  

   of 
  the 
  Menai 
  Straits, 
  both 
  against 
  strong 
  currents 
  and 
  both 
  entirely 
  unpre- 
  

   meditated 
  excursions. 
  For 
  many 
  years 
  he 
  rented 
  deer 
  forests 
  in 
  the 
  High- 
  

   lands, 
  where 
  he 
  was 
  as 
  much 
  beloved 
  as 
  he 
  was 
  by 
  his 
  own 
  employees 
  at 
  

   home. 
  Even 
  when 
  his 
  health 
  began 
  to 
  fail, 
  and 
  his 
  physical 
  powers 
  had 
  

   decreased 
  for 
  some 
  two 
  or 
  three 
  years 
  before 
  his 
  death, 
  his 
  interest 
  in 
  science 
  

   and 
  in 
  everything 
  around 
  him 
  never 
  failed, 
  his 
  unvarying 
  good 
  temper 
  and 
  

   kindness 
  of 
  disposition 
  never 
  left 
  him. 
  He 
  died 
  in 
  London 
  quietly 
  from 
  

   heart 
  failure, 
  after 
  a 
  short 
  illness 
  at 
  his 
  house 
  in 
  Pont 
  Street, 
  and 
  was 
  buried 
  

   at 
  Cowfold, 
  in 
  Sussex, 
  where 
  his 
  funeral 
  was 
  attended 
  by 
  a 
  great 
  number 
  of 
  

   people 
  of 
  all 
  classes 
  who 
  had 
  known 
  and 
  loved 
  him. 
  

  

  Godman 
  was 
  an 
  active 
  member 
  of 
  many 
  societies 
  ; 
  he 
  had 
  been 
  Vice- 
  

   President 
  and 
  was 
  long 
  on 
  the 
  Council 
  of 
  the 
  Zoological 
  Society, 
  a 
  Past- 
  

   President 
  of 
  the 
  Entomological 
  Society, 
  of 
  the 
  British 
  Ornithologists' 
  Union, 
  

   Gold 
  Medallist 
  of 
  the 
  Linnaean 
  Society 
  in 
  1918, 
  a 
  Trustee 
  of 
  the 
  British 
  

   Museum, 
  and 
  a 
  D.C.L. 
  of 
  Oxford 
  University. 
  He 
  was 
  also 
  a 
  Fellow 
  of 
  the 
  

   Society 
  of 
  Antiquaries, 
  of 
  the 
  Geological 
  and 
  Boyal 
  Geographical 
  Societies. 
  

  

  The 
  British 
  Ornithologists' 
  Union 
  have 
  decided 
  to 
  commemorate 
  him, 
  in 
  

   conjunction 
  with 
  Salvin, 
  by 
  the 
  institution 
  of 
  a 
  Godman-Salvin 
  Gold 
  Medal, 
  

   to 
  be 
  given 
  by 
  the 
  Union 
  for 
  specially 
  good 
  work 
  in 
  Ornithology 
  ; 
  and 
  another 
  

   committee 
  has 
  been 
  formed 
  at 
  the 
  British 
  Museum 
  of 
  Natural 
  History 
  to 
  

   enable 
  members 
  of 
  other 
  societies 
  to 
  present 
  a 
  memorial 
  to 
  that 
  institution 
  in 
  

   the 
  shape 
  of 
  a 
  bronze 
  portrait-plaque 
  of 
  the 
  two 
  friends, 
  and 
  a 
  fund 
  for 
  

   travelling 
  and 
  collecting, 
  to 
  be 
  called 
  the 
  Godman 
  Exploration 
  Fund. 
  

  

  H. 
  J. 
  E. 
  

  

  