Obituary notices of fellows deceased

The death of a, man who has taken such an active and distinguished part in zoology for so many years, is a loss to science, which all who knew him must deplore. Godman was born in January, 1834, the third son of Joseph Godman of Park Hatch, Godaiming, who as a partner in the firm of Whitbread and Co. was able to leave him an ample fortune. As a boy at Eton, where he went in 1844, he was delicate in health, and after three years was removed and continued his education under private tutors. Before he went to Cambridge he was sent on a tour to the Mediterranean and showed his independence by refusing to go home with his tutor, who wished to return to England by a vessel sailing six hours after their arrival at Constantinople. He made the acquaintance of some English travellers, and went on a trip with them to the Black Sea and to Sebastopol, about which city he was called on later to give some information to the War Office before the Crimean War. He returned to the Crimea in a yacht in 1855 to visit his brother in the 5th Dragoon Guards—Captain, afterwards General Godman—who was serving in the war. He then witnessed the storming of the Rifle Pits, the capture of the Mamelon, and the entrance of the Allied fleets into Besika Bay.