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presentation, in four pages, of tlie necessity of special measures 

 for preserving fish and preventing their destruction, and of put- 

 ting into practice the art of breeding them, with the history of the 

 art and its present condition, in which the part taken by the 

 United States in the fish-cultural enterprises is fully set forth. He 

 had almost completed an elaborate memoir on the distribution of 

 abyssalian fishes, in which he recognized for them a number of 

 different faunal areas a thing which no previous student of them 

 had done. He had been engaged for some time previous to his 

 death in the preparation of a Half-Century Book of the Smith- 

 sonian Institution which he had projected. He contemplated a 

 complete Bibliography of Ichthyology, to include the names of all 

 genera and species published as new, and had collected the mate- 

 rials for it. In this department he completed as part of a series 

 of Bibliographies of American Naturalists, those of Spencer F. 

 Baird (1883) and of Cbarles Gdrard (1891), and one not yet pub- 

 lished, but printed, of Philip Lutley Sclater, Secretary of the Zoo- 

 logical Society of London and a distinguished ornithologist. A 

 sketch of the life and work of this naturalist, published in Science 

 for September 4, 1896, is, so far as at present appears, his last j^ub- 

 lished article. Other articles, only partly showing the broader 

 range of Dr. Goode's interests, are his two addresses before the 

 Biological Society of Washington, in 1886 and 1887, on The Be- 

 ginnings of Natural History in America, in which his " diligence 

 in the collection of data and skill in presenting them are well 

 exemplified " ; a paper on The Origin of the National Scientific and 

 Educational Institutions of the United States, contributed to the 

 American Historical Association in 1890, in which a connected 

 view is given of the growth of such institutions from their begin- 

 ning in the attempt of Mr. Boyle, Bishop Wilkins, and others, to 

 establish in the colony of Connecticut a society for promoting 

 knowledge ; a paper on Museum History and Museums of His- 

 tory, read before the American Historical Association, in which 

 is included a statement of the author's ideas of what a museum 

 should contain, what purposes it should be intended to serve, and 

 how it should be arranged and managed ; and an address before 

 the American Philosophical Society on the one hundredth anni- 

 versary of the death of Benjamin Franklin, on that great Ameri- 

 can's Literary Labors, in which he showed that Franklin never 

 wrote for literary fame, but only for the good he might do by 

 disseminating his thoughts and suggestions. Prof. Goode's con- 

 tributions to ichthyology, in the Reports of the Fish Commission, 

 Harper's Weekly said in 1887, " are not all of a purely scientific, 

 but for a large part of a practical character. The most thorough 

 and exhaustive researches ever made by any one about a special 

 fish is that on the menhaden, due to Prof. Goode, and is a model 



