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to make use of any work of more technical character. The undertaking well illustrates Doctor 

 Goodale's confidence that science, for its own advancement and best interests, must make 

 popular appeal. 



His early writings covered a wide range of subject matter — chemical, medical, pharmaceu- 

 tical, horticultural, and agricultural, as well as botanical. In later years his publications were 

 mostly reviews, synopses for class use, official reports, and addresses. 



From 1888 to 1920 he was an associate editor of the American Journal of Science, and to this 

 he contributed notes and reviews in considerable number. Many of his early writings were 

 printed in newspapers or in popular journals of a transient nature, and in later years it is believed 

 that he from time to time contributed by request to the unsigned editorial matter of several 

 periodicals, including the Nation. 



For these reasons it would be well-nigh impossible at this date to form a complete bibliog- 

 raphy of his writings. Happily Prof. Robert Tracy Jackson, while preparing his excellent 

 sketch of Doctor Goodale for the Harvard Graduates' Magazine, took great pains to familiarize 

 himself with his published output and to this end drew up a very full and as yet unprinted fist 

 of his writings. This he has generously contributed for use in the present memoir and, with 

 slight emendations, it is here appended. The portrait accompanying this memoir is here 

 reproduced by courtesy of the editorial board of Rhodora. 



In 1888 Doctor Goodale was appointed to the Fisher professorship of natural history, a 

 chair long held by Doctor Gray. In 1909, after 38 years in the service of Harvard University 

 and no less than 36 years as professor, Doctor Goodale resigned and was thereupon appointed, 

 by the president and fellows of Harvard College, Fisher professor emeritus and honorary curator 

 of the botanical museum. To the extent that declining health permitted he continued to give 

 the museum his care and thought for more than a decade thereafter, directing its growth, con- 

 ducting its correspondence, and exerting influence toward its financial support. 



With social gifts of an exceptional nature, Doctor and Mrs. Goodale early gained an 

 acquaintance of unusual extent and were able to make their home one of delightful hospitality, 

 where the guest at once felt breadth of sympathy and where conversation naturally turned to 

 matters of importance and themes of interest. They had five children, of whom only two 

 reached maturity, namely, Joseph Lincoln Goodale, who has for many years been a distin- 

 guished surgeon of Boston, and Francis Greeideaf Goodale, a lawyer of Weston, Mass., practicing 

 in Boston. 



Doctor Goodale's final illness was of a gradual and at times painful nature, but was borne 

 patiently and referred to, if at all, with characteristic humor. 



It would be impossible to summarize in a few words the achievements of a life so full of 

 varied activities. It was one of devoted and patient service to science. Its ends were neither 

 spectacular discovery, nor detailed investigation, nor yet the production of technical treatises. 

 Its guiding motives were to improve the conditions of the student, to extend the opportunities 

 of the investigator, and above all to convey to a wider public important messages of scientific 

 truth. 



