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preparation, tlie coast, lakes, etc., of the country were mapped off 

 into twenty-four districts, each of which was assigned to a field 

 assistant. "This work," says Mr. Gill, "was by far the most 

 complete survey of the economical fishes of the country that had 

 ever appeared, and has since been the most prized. It led to 

 another." This other was American Fishes ; a Popular Treatise 

 upon the Game and Food Fishes of North America, with Especial 

 Reference to Habits and Modes of Capture. This volume was 

 prepared, the author said in his prologue, for " the use of the 

 angler, the lover of Nature, and the general reader." It was not 

 intended for naturalists, and the technicalities of zoological de- 

 scription were therefore avoided. Prof. Goode's plan, in selecting 

 from the seventeen hundred and fifty species of fish indigenous 

 to our waters those to be described in the book, was to include 

 every North American fish which was likely to be of interest to 

 the general reader, either on account of its genuineness or its 

 economical uses. The physical features of each fish were de- 

 scribed, its range and season were marked, its habits in regard to 

 feeding, migration, and breeding were delineated, and something 

 was told about the method of capturing it and its value as food ; 

 but it contained " no discussions of rods, reels, lines, hooks, and 

 flies, and no instructions concerning camping out, excursions, 

 routes, guides, and hotels." Mingled with these facts were infor- 

 mation about the different names of fishes in different places, 

 exciting fishing adventures, and excursions into the literature of 

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In the meantime Dr. Goode had (1879-1881) prepared the text 

 for a work on the game fishes of the United States, intended to 

 accompany twenty large folio colored plates by S. A. Kilbourne. 

 The collections made by the Fish Commission and the steamers 

 Blake, Albatross, and Fish Hawk were carefully studied by Dr. 

 Goode and Dr. Bean, and the fruits of their labor were put forth 

 in a book in two volumes, with one hundred and twenty-three 

 plates, on Oceanic Ichthyology, a Treatise on the Pelagic and 

 Deep-sea Fishes of the World, which came from the press only 

 about two weeks before Dr. Goode's death. In 1880 Dr. Goode 

 published the story of The First Decade of the United States Fish 

 Commission : its Plan of Work and Accomplished Results, Scien- 

 tific and Economical. The same subject was presented in a paper 

 read before the American Association at its Boston meeting, 1880, 

 the aim of which was declared to be to show, in a general way, 

 what the commission had done, was doing, and expected to do 

 " its purposes, methods, and results." In 1881 he published Epochs 

 in the History of Fish Culture, and in 1882 an encyclopaedic ar- 

 ticle on The Fisheries of the World. He was author of the article 

 on Pisciculture in the Encyclopsedia Britannica, an admirable 



