22 Memorial of George Broivn Goode. 



Museum Historj^ and Museums of History in 1889, and his invalu- 

 able memoir upon Museum Administration in 1895. His labors and 

 writings placed him in the lead of museum experts in this country and 

 upon the level of the distinguished leader of museum development in 

 England, Sir William Flower. The closing sentence of his address before 

 the English Museums Association must be quoted. "The degree of civ- 

 ilization to which any nation, city, or province has attained is best shown 

 by the character of its public museums and the liberahty with which they 

 are maintained. ' ' 



His popular works include the Game Fishes of the United States, pub- 

 lished in 1879, a book written in charming literary style, besides innu- 

 merable short articles in the Chautauquan, Forest and Stream, and 

 Science. In 1888 appeared his American Fishes: A Popular Treatise 

 upon the Game and Food Fishes of North America, with special refer- 

 ence to habits and methods of capture. These writings give us a further 

 insight not only into the two sides of Goode's scientific nature, the theo- 

 retical and the practical, but into his artistic and poetical sentiment and 

 into the wide extent of his reading. Besides the long list enumerated 

 above, he published 51 joint ichth3"ological papers with G. Brown, W. O. 

 Atwater, R. E. Earll, A. Howard Clark, Joseph W. Collins, Newton P. 

 Scudder, but his main collaborateur was Tarleton H. Bean. Under their 

 names appear 35 papers, but, chief of all, the Oceanic Ichthyology, a 

 Treatise on the Deep Sea and Pelagic Fi,shes of the World, based chiefly 

 upon the collections made by steamers Blake, Albatross, and Fish Hazvk 

 in the Northwestern Atlantic. 



In 1877 Goode saw his first deep-sea fish drawn fresh from the bottom, 

 and experienced a sensation which he thus describes in the preface of his 

 monograph: 



The studies which have led to the writing of this book were begun in the summer 

 of 1877, when the first deep-sea fishes were caught by American nets on the coast of 

 North America. This took place in the Gulf of Maine, 44 miles east of Cape Ann, 

 on the 19th of August, when from the side of the United States Fish Commission 

 steamer Spccdzucll the trawlnet was cast in 160 fathoms of water. The writers were 

 both standing by the mouth of the net when, as the seamen lifted tlie end of the bag, 

 two strange forms fell out on the deck. A single glance was enough to tell us that 

 they were new to our fauna, and probably unknown to science. They seemed like 

 visitors from another world, and none of the strange forms which have since passed 

 through our laboratory have brought half as much interest and enthusiasm. 

 Macrurus bairdii and Lycodes verrillii were simply new species of well-known 

 deep-dwelling genera, and have since been found to be very abundant on the conti- 

 nental slope, but they were among the first fruits of that great harvest in the field 

 of oceanic ichthyology which we have had the pleasure to garner in the fifteen years 

 which have passed since that happy and eventful morning. It seems incredible that 

 American naturalists should not then have known that a few miles away there was a 

 fauna as unlike that of our coast as could be found in the Indian Ocean or the seas 

 of China. . . . 



In one of the latest of his 45 contributions to the Bulletins of the 

 United States National Museum is the description of the discovery of the 



