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Prof. Mason says : " It would be difficult to find among those 

 who are professional anthropologists a man who had a more ex- 

 alted idea of what this science ought to be. ... In addition to 

 this comprehensive and appreciative view of anthropology, Dr. 

 Goode was among the foremost scholars in the line of his own 

 studies, and the bibliography of his works fills many pages of 

 manuscript. He was, in addition to this, a good man, with a 

 gentle, affectionate spirit, a lovely family life, a patriotic heart, 

 and a singular devotion to the interest of the public. He never 

 lost sight of the fact that Mr. Smithson's bequest was not only for 

 the ' increase of knowledge ' to glorify discovery, but for the ' dif- 

 fusion of knowledge ' to bless all mankind." 



The memorial resolutions of the Biological Section of the New 

 York Academy of Sciences, after referring fittingly to his scien- 

 tific work, add that " those of us who had the good fortune to 

 know Prof. Goode personally recall his genial interest in the work 

 of others, his true scientific spirit. We have thus lost one of our 

 ablest fellow- workers and one of the truest and best of men." 



The interest in schools of all grades in the South, from the common 

 school to the university, is represented by President Julius D. Dreher, of 

 Roanoke College, in a pai^er read before the American Social Science Asso- 

 ciation, as steadily growing. "The increase in the enrollment of eager 

 pupils in public schools is a proof of that activ^e interest. An additional 

 proof is found in the fact that colleges and seminaries are attended by an 

 increasing number of young men and women who practice self-denial or 

 profit by the sacrifices of anxious parents, in order that their higher educa- 

 tional advantages may be enjoyed." Even the tendency to multiply higher 

 institutions of learning is still further evidence of this general interest. 

 Notwithstanding all that has been said, it must not be forgotten that under 

 many adverse circumstances the Southern people have done a tremendous 

 work since the war in providing schools for the masses and in building 

 and strengthening institutions of higher education. They might have 

 been wiser in their plans and more judicious in some respects in spending 

 their money, but no people ever projected educational institutions in the 

 midst of more inauspicious surroundings, and that, too, with the conscious- 

 ness that a race, recently in slavery and hence able to contribute almost 

 nothing in taxes, was to share equally with themselves in the schools sup- 

 ported at public expense. What has been done against so many odds may 

 be regarded as the sure promise of greater advance in the future. 



A STRANGE tale of a shepherd dog caring for a cat is told by a corre- 

 spondent of La Nature. The cat was neglected, and the dog perceived that 

 it was suffering from hunger. He was accustomed to go to a neighboring 

 house where he was usually given delicacies from the table. One day the 

 people of the house, answering a sound at the door, found the dog waiting 

 there with the cat firmly settled on his back. Food was given the cat, and 

 its escort rested while it ate. For three days the dog brought the cat thus ; 

 then the cat came afoot, but the dog was always with it. 



