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above his own special branch of biological science. He was a man of 

 the widest interests I have ever known, so that whatever he was speak- 

 ing of at any moment, seemed to be the thing he knew best. It was 

 often hard to say, then, what love predominated ; but I think that he had, 

 on the whole, no pleasure greater than that in his Museum administra- 

 tion, and that, apart from his family interests and joys, this was the 

 deepest love of all. He refused advantageous offers to leave it, though I 

 ought to gratefully add here, that his knowledge of my reliance upon 

 him and his unselfish desire to aid me, were also among his determining 

 motives in remaining. They were natural ones in such a man. 



What were the results of this devotion may be comprehensively seen 

 in the statement that in the year in which he was first enrolled among 

 the officers of the Museum the entries of collections numbered less than 

 200,000, and the staff, including honorary collaborators and all subordi- 

 nates, thirteen persons, and by comparing these early conditions with 

 what they became under his subsequent management. 



Professor Baird at the first was an active manager, but from the time 

 that he became Secretary of the Institution he devolved more and more 

 of the Museum duties on Doctor Goode, who for nine years preceding 

 his death was practically in entire charge of it. It is strictly within the 

 truth then to say that the changes which have taken place in the Museum 

 in that time are more his work than any other man's, and when we find 

 that the number of persons employed has grown from thirteen to over 

 two hundred, and the number of specimens from 200,000 to over 

 3,000,000, and consider that what the Museum now is, its scheme and 

 arrangement, with almost all which make it distinctive; are chiefly 

 Doctor Goode' s, we have some of the evidence of his administrative 

 capacity. He was fitted to rule and administer both men and things, 

 and the Museum under his management was, as someone has called it, 

 "A house full of ideas and a nursery of living thought." 



Perhaps no one can be a "naturalist," in the larger sense, without 

 being directly a lover of Nature and of all natural sights and sounds. 

 One of his family says: 



He taught us all the forest trees, their fruits and flowers in season, and to know 

 them when bare of leaves by their shapes; all the wayside shrubs, and even the flow- 

 ers of the weeds ; all the wild birds and their notes, and the insects. His ideal of an 

 old age was to have a little place of his own in a mild climate, surrounded by his 

 books for rainy days, and friends who cared for plain living and high thinking, with 

 a chance to help someone poorer than he. 



He was a loving and quick observer, and in these simple natural joys 

 his studies were his recreations, and were closely connected with his 

 literary pursuits. 



I have spoken of his varied interests and the singular fullness of his 

 .knowledge in fields apart from biologic research. He was a genealogist 

 of professional completeness and exactitude, and a historian, and of him in 



