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A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF 
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Godman (Frederick Ducane), nat. 1834 
Frederick Ducane Godman, third son of Joseph Godman, 
of Park Hatch, Surrey, was born on January 15, 1834, and 
educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge. 
He went to Cambridge in October 1853, and, having a 
great love for natural history, soon became acquainted with 
other kindred spirits, notably the brothers Newton and Osbert 
Salvin ; and with the last then commenced that lifelong and 
close friendship which culminated in the joint publication 
of the Biologia Centrali- Americana, and terminated only 
with Salvin’s death in 1898 ; whilst out of the custom of the 
ornithological friends to meet and talk over their recent 
acquisitions arose the celebrated gathering at Magdalen 
College in Alfred Newton’s rooms, in November 1857, when 
the British Ornithologists’ Union, consisting of twenty 
members, was founded, while the first volume of The Ibis 
was issued in the following year. 
At his father’s death, Salvin succeeded to the property at 
Fernhurst in Surrey and gave up his London house, where a 
large part of the united collections and books had, up to that 
time, been stored. In order to accommodate these, F. D. 
Godman rented a house in Tenterden Street, which later 
became a popular resort of the ornithological fraternity after 
the scientific meetings of the Zoological Society in Hanover 
Square. The house being larger than Godman required, 
Lord Lilford occupied the ground floor, and at various times 
Dresser and others also kept their ornithological collections 
there. 
Dr. Godman continued to occupy this house for some 
years, but on finding that the united collections outgrew its 
capacity, he moved to 10 Chandos Street, Cavendish Square, 
and there remained till 1907. 
He was joint author with Salvin of the Biologia Centrali- 
Ary\ericana, and author of a Monograph of the Petrels (1907- 
1910), The Natural History of the Azores (1870), and of many 
papers in The Ibis, chiefly on the birds of Central and South 
