SKETCH OF GEORGE LINCOLN GOOD ALE. 693 



university to perform more or less work indirectly connected 

 with their own departments. That which has fallen to Prof. 

 Goodale's share may be inferred from the following, taken from 

 the last college catalogue : member of the Council of the Uni- 

 versity Library ; member of the Faculty of the University Mu- 

 seum ; and, next year, as President of the Boston Society of Natu- 

 ral History, he must act ex officio as one of the Trustees of the 

 Peabody Museum. He is also Director of the Botanic Garden of 

 the university. 



In addition to the degrees already mentioned, Prof. Goodale 

 has received that of Master of Arts from Bowdoin and from 

 Amherst ; from the latter also that of Doctor of Laws. 



Among the societies to which he belongs may he mentioned : 

 Phi Beta Kappa, of Amherst ; American Society of Naturalists 

 (of which he has been president) ; American Physiological Soci- 

 ety ; Society of American Anatomists ; the German Botanical 

 Society ; the Academies of Philadelphia and of New York ; the 

 American Academy of Arts and Sciences ; and the National 

 Academy, Washington. He is this year the outgoing President 

 of the American Association for the Advancement of Science: 



Prof. Goodale's contributions to science have been chiefly 

 physiological and botanical. In addition to these publications, 

 reference may be made to his work as associate editor of the 

 American Journal of Science, and to his three series of lectures 

 before the Lowell Institute in Boston. 



By his activity as a teacher and lecturer he has been success- 

 ful in exciting a good degree of interest in his department in the 

 city of Boston, and he has been enabled in this way to secure 

 large sums of money for the Botanical Garden, Herbarium, and 

 Museum. By a recent university report it appears that the sub- 

 scriptions to these objects, within ten years, have reached the sum 

 of one hundred and sixty thousand dollars. With a portion of 

 this money there has been built an extensive addition to the 

 Agassiz Museum, which accommodates amply the magnificent 

 cryptogamic collections and commodious laboratories of Prof. 

 W. G. Farlow, the laboratories of morphological, physiological, 

 and economic botany, and the museums of botany. For the pur- 

 pose of augmenting the material for the latter, Prof. Goodale has 

 just completed a journey to Ceylon, Australia, Tasmania, New 

 Zealand, Java, Straits Settlements, Cochin-China, China, and Ja- 

 pan. The fruits of this very zigzag tour around the world are 

 beginning to arrive from Victoria and Queensland. Arrange- 

 ments have been completed by which large collections of objects 

 illustrating the commercial botany of the present day are to be 

 obtained from the principal countries of Europe and the East, and 

 from the southern hemisphere. 



