Frederick DuCane Godman

See also: Godman

Frederick DuCane Godman is a ornithologist and a British Entomologiste , born the January 15th 1834 with Park Hatch in the Surrey and dead the February 19th 1919.

Godman is the third wire of Joseph Godman. It makes its studies with the Collège of Eton and the Trinity College. In Cambridge, it makes the meeting of Alfred Newton (1829-1907) and of Osbert Salvin (1835-1898). The practice of his/her three friends ornithologists to meet to speak about their last acquisitions, conduits to create the British Ornithologists' Union (BOU) in November 1857. Godman ensures the secretary of 1870 to 1882 and 1889 to 1897 as well as the presidency as from 1896. It Marie initially with Mary Elwes in December 1875 then, in second weddings, with Alice Mary Chaplin.

He is in particular the author of The Natural History off the Azores (1870), Monograph off the Petrels (1910) and, with Osbert Salvin, Biologia Centrali-Americana (1916), vast work of fifty-two volumes which contributes to increase considerably the knowledge of the fauna of the Central America. He receives the Médaille linnéenne in 1918. He is member various learned societies like the royal Société of horticulture, the zoological Société of London, of the geological Société of London, of the Société linnéenne of London, of the Royal Society, etc

The British Museum shelters the collections of Godman and Osbert Salvin made up of 50.000 specimens of Oiseau X, 120.000 of Coléoptère S, 30.000 of Lépidoptère S, 18.000 of Diptère S, 11.000 of Hémiptère S and 5.000 of Hyménoptère S.

List partial of the publications

1887 : with Osbert Salvin, Biologia Centrali-Americana. Insecta. Lepidoptera-Rhopalocera. Duleau & Co., Bernard Quartrich (London), 2 , 1-112, pls 48-56.

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