380 RICHARD URQUHART GOODE 



turn to work with this bureau, and he remained with it until the 

 time of his death, serving in various capacities from topographer 

 to geographer in administrative charge of surveys in the western 

 half the coimtry. In 1888 he was granted leave of absence in 

 order that he might assist the engineers of the Panama Canal 

 Company in important topographic and land surveys covering 

 property rights in the Isthmus of Darien. His duties with that 

 organization were those of engineer and astronomer. In 1889 

 he was transferred to charge of the southern central division of 

 topography, at which time he was promoted to geographer. In 

 September, 1890, he was transferred to the western branch, and 

 placed in charge of the Kansas-Texas division, which assign- 

 ment he retained until August, 1894, when he was transferred 

 to the more important charge of the Pacific section. On the re- 

 organization of the topographic branch incidental to the retire- 

 ment of Messrs. Gannett and Thompson from charge of the 

 eastern and western sections, respectivel^s Mr. Goode was as- 

 signed charge of one of the four sections into which the branch 

 was divided, the Pacific section, which included all of the 

 United States west of the Rocky Mountains, to which was later 

 added surveys in Alaska and forest-reserve boundary surveys. 

 Mr. Goode was a member of the Washington Academy of 

 Sciences and of the National Geographic Society, and was an 

 officer and prominent member of the Cosmos Club. For several 

 years past he had been a vestryman of St. Margaret's church. 

 In 1889 Mr. Goode was married to Sophie J. Parks of Norfolk, 

 Va., who survives him with three children, the eldest about 

 thirteen and the youngest about nine years of age. 



H. M. Wilson. 



