Rbodora 
JOURNAL OF 
THE NEW ENGLAND BOTANICAL CLUB 
Vol. 25. August, 1923. No. 296. 
GEORGE LINCOLN GOODALE. 
L. H. BAILEY. 
(With portrait.) 
GEORGE LincoLN GOODALE began life August 3, 1839 at Saco, 
Maine, and completed it April 12,1923, at Cambridge, Massachusetts. 
This bare statement may seem to signify little, but the life that was 
lived in those eighty-four years has great significance to a wide circle 
of associates and acquaintances and to the teaching of botany. 'To 
those who knew Dr. Goodale in his active teaching days at Harvard 
there remains a memory of a prompt, upstanding, positive, accom- 
plishing character, master of his subject, unhesitating and convincing 
in his presentation of it. He succeeded to the teaching work of Asa 
Gray. It was a great career to follow. He continued the work 
without a personal departure and with rare loyalty at the same time 
that he gave it a particular direction. 
Dr. Goodale's teaching naturally covered a wide range, but his 
was the special opportunity to present the enlarging subject of plant 
physiology as it was developed and understood by the best men of 
the day. He had good academic and scientific preparation. He 
had an acquisitive and analytic mind. He knew the necessary 
languages. He had personal acquaintance with the men and the 
laboratories in Europe. He brought this accumulation and experience 
to students in America in an authoritative way at a time when it was 
much needed. It was at length embodied in his Physiological 
Botany, 1885, comprising the second volume of Gray's projected 
“Botanical Text-Book," the third and fourth volumes of which, 
to be devoted to other subjects, were unhappily never completed. 
