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In introducing Mr. G. Brown Goode, Mr. Williams 

 said : 



American science owed its foundation and its first 

 great discovery to a master of English style. The 

 example of Franklin has never been forgotten by the 

 scientific men of America. The record of their work 

 has often become a part of the literature of their land. 

 The clarity of their style has matched the brilliancy of 

 their discoveries. It has been especially true of the 

 Smithsonian Institution, which owes its endowment to 

 the liberality of a private citizen, a liberality whose 

 infectious example ought to attract new additions to 

 his useful gift, that it has maintained in its registers of 

 advancing knowledge, the dignity as well as the accu- 

 racy of science. A Henry and a Langley both remind 

 us that the ability to make great discoveries may well 

 be joined with the capacity to give them adequate 

 expression. Representing a scientific institution with 

 these traditions, Mr. Goode has come to be naturally 

 selected to speak of the attainments of a man of 

 science in the field of letters. With much of Mr. 

 Goode's labors we are all familiar. The literature of 

 our woods will never be complete without including 

 the pages of Audubon, and the full record of our seas 

 begins with the work of Goode. To this research, 

 whose fruits are known to many, he has added labors 

 in the field of early American literature whose results 

 we hear to-night. As representing .at once, organized 

 science and literary research, I have the honor to 

 introduce to you, Mr. G. Brown Goode, of the Smith- 

 sonian Institution, who will speak upon 



