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college course amanuensis to the late President William A. 

 Stearns, with whom to the very last he maintained close relations. 

 In his senior year he began the study of medicine with the well- 

 known and beloved physician Dr. A. Smith, of Amherst, but 

 toward the end of 1861 joined the Portland School for Medical 

 Instruction as a pupil, attending courses of medical lectures in 

 the Medical School of Maine and at Harvard. He received his 

 medical degree at Harvard University in 1863, reading at gradua- 

 tion, a thesis on Anthrax maligna. Later in the same year he was 

 given the same degree by Bowdoin College. From this date 

 until 1865 he practiced medicine in Portland, served as City 

 Physician, and gave lectures in the medical school on anatomy, 

 and afterward on surgery and materia medica. During the 

 winter of that year he attended as private pupil, in New York, 

 the special classes of Dr. Frank Hamilton, Austin Flint the elder, 

 and Dr. Shrady ; but in February of 1866 his health was so much 

 impaired that he relinquished practice and study, and went by 

 the way of Panama to California. After having executed certain 

 commissions in the inspection of mining property, he visited the 

 principal points of botanical interest in the State, ascending Mount 

 Shasta with a party in August. He made the ascent of the mount- 

 ain with so little discomfort that he regarded his health as thor- 

 oughly re-established. His journey home in autumn was made 

 by the way of Washington Territory, Idaho, Utah, and Colorado, 

 the last part of the long stage-ride being by the " Smoky Hill " 

 route in Kansas the week after the Indian raid of 1866. For a 

 portion of the way the stage party found only smoking ruins of 

 the ranch houses, but no Indians were met with. 



In the following year Dr. Goodale visited Europe with his life- 

 long friend, Prof. Brackett, formerly of Bowdoin College, and now 

 of Princeton University. He accepted, in 1868, an instructorship 

 in Bowdoin College and the Medical School of Maine. His con- 

 nection with those two institutions lasted until 1871, during which 

 period he held the chair of Materia Medica in the Medical School, 

 and of Applied Chemistry and Natural Science in the college. 



At the invitation of Prof. Asa Gray, he became assistant in 

 botany in the Summer School of 1871, and later in that year was 

 appointed university lecturer in Harvard. In 1872 he was pro- 

 moted to the Assistant Professorship of Vegetable Physiology, 

 and in 1877 to the Professorship of Botany. On the death of his 

 teacher, the late Asa Gray, he was appointed to the vacant Fisher 

 Professorship of Natural History. 



Many of his vacations have been passed in Europe in the study 

 of economic and physiological botany, the vacation year of 1881- 

 1882 in the laboratory of Pfeffer, in Tubingen, and in Paris. 



Harvard professors are expected by the corporation of the 



