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One cannot go back to this text-book without being impressed by 
its thoroughness, the familiarity with the literature of the epoch as 
evidenced in the abundant citations, and by the logical, coherent, 
straightforward presentation. It stresses the chemical and physical 
relations of the subject. It is divided into two parts,— The Outlines 
of Vegetable Histology, and Vegetable Physiology, the second com- 
prising about two-fifths of the treatment. It is a solid substantial 
book, that students of the present day would do well to understand. 
But Dr. Goodale was interested not alone in precise laboratory 
studies. His "Wild Flowers of America," with colored plates from 
the drawings of Isaac Sprague, 1882, is still one of our choicest books 
for the plant-lover. Even as early as 1868 he had collaborated 
with Joseph Blake in the preparation of the * Portland Catalogue 
of Maine Plants." He was keenly interested in economic botany and 
in the practical improvement of useful and industrial plants, as well 
as in materia medica, to which his early studies and medical practice 
naturally led him. His presidential address before the American 
Association for the Advancement of Science at the Washington 
meeting, 1891, was on “Useful Plants of the Future." His interest 
in popular presentation of botanical subjects found expression also 
in the great Ware collection of Blaschka glass-models of plants in 
flower, which he was instrumental in securing and to the preparation 
of which he gave much personal attention, beginning as early as 1886; 
this unique collection is now one of the striking features of the Har- 
vard Museums. 
The breadth of his training and preparation is attested by the pro- 
fessional work in which he was engaged before he devoted himself to 
botany at Harvard. He practised medicine in Portland, Maine, 
1863-66, having received M. D. from Bowdoin and Harvard in 1863; 
was state assayer of Maine, 1864; professor in natural science at 
Bowdoin, 1867-73, covering applied chemistry from 1868, and 
materia medica from 1870. 
Dr. Goodale's active connection with Harvard began in 1872, as 
lecturer on vegetable physiology and instructor in botany. In 1873 
he became assistant professor in vegetable physiology; in 1878 he 
was made full professor of botany; from 1879-1909 he was director 
of the botanic garden and curator of the botanical museum. From 
1888 to 1909 he was Fisher Professor of Natural History at Harvard, 
the title previously held by Gray, and in 1909, on his retirement, was 
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