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of clearness, of industry displayed in collecting the facts, and of 

 practical usefulness. Material furnished by liim for the study of 

 the swordfish is of equal value. In connection with Captain 

 Collins, R. E. Earl, and A. Howard Clark, a life history of the 

 mackerel was prepared, which remains to-day one of the com- 

 pletest of treatises on one of the most valuable of American fishes. 

 Prof. Goode's notes on the life history of the eel have settled all 

 questions in regard to the peculiar habits of this fish." 



It was Dr. Goode's lot, by virtue of his skill in museum organ- 

 ization, to bear a prominent part in the arrangement and installa- 

 tion of the exhibits of the United States in the various inter- 

 national and general exhibitions which were held during his 

 active career. He was thus associated with the Smithsonian 

 exhibits at the Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia in 1876 ; at 

 the Fisheries Exhibitions in Berlin in 1880 and London in 1883 ; 

 at New Orleans, Cinscinnati, and Louisville ; at the Chicago Co- 

 lumbian Exhibition in 1893 ; at the Columbian Historical Exhi- 

 bition in Madrid, Spain, in 1892-'93 ; and at the Atlanta Cotton 

 States Exhibition. In recognition of his services at the Madrid 

 Exhibition he received the Order of Isabella the Catholic, with 

 the grade of commander. 



Next to being a zoologist and particularly an ichthyologist, 

 Dr. Goode was perhaps most eminently an anthropologist. Mr. 

 Gill observes that his catalogues embraced the outlines of a sys- 

 tem of anthropological science; and Prof. Otis T. Mason, in a 

 sketch of him in the American Anthropologist, says that in his 

 system of museum classification he insisted that all the sciences 

 of every kind are essentially anthropological. The earth was to 

 be regarded as man's abode, and was studied by him as such, both 

 in its astronomical relations and its geological aspects. In the 

 same way physiographic studies were regarded by him " as lead- 

 ing up to a knowledge of the earth's surface, as ministering to 

 life, and especially to the health and happiness of man " ; and 

 meteorological apparatus and phenomena, geographical explora- 

 tions and voyages, technographic resources, physics, mechanics, 

 chemistry, botany, zoology, etc., were all regarded by him pre- 

 dominantly as they bore upon man's life and welfare. " Beyond 

 the material resources of the earth and the forces by which they 

 are regulated and shaped lay in Dr. Goode's scheme the special 

 human industries devoted to the exploration of the earth, the 

 elaboration of materials, the transportation and exchange of pro- 

 ductions, and their utilization as well as their enjoyments. From 

 the foregoing studies Dr. Goode's comprehensive plan led up to 

 the social relations of mankind in their material manifestations, 

 then to the intellectual co-operations of mankind as manifested in 

 the arts, sciences, and philosophies, terminating with education. 



