Memorial Meeting. 23 



new deep-.sea Chimoeroid, for which, true to his appreciation of the past, 

 he proposed the name Harriotta, in memory of Thomas Harriott, the 

 earhest Enghsh natnrahst in America. 



The quaint, old-fashioned style of some of Goode's essays gives us an 

 insight into his historic seUvSe and his reversion to the ideas and principles 

 of his Virginia ancestors. Seldom have we known the loyal conservative 

 spirit, of reverence for old institutions, fealty to independence of socie- 

 ties, combined with such a grandly progressive spirit in the cooperation 

 of the Government with the state, and of one country with another in 

 the promotion of science. 



Again, what impresses us most is Goode as the apostle of scientific 

 knowledge. A' conviction of his mission in life breathes forth from his 

 earliest papers in the College Argus to his final appeal in Science for the 

 *' Admis.sion of American students to the French universities." 



One of his intimate friends writes: 



Sometimes we talked of more far-reaching matters, and in such discussions I often 

 took a position I had no faith in, hoping to draw him out. I remember once we fell 

 to talking of the province of science, and for the sake of argument I took the position 

 that most scientific work was merely a form of intellectual amusement, and benefited 

 no one. He became quite earnest in his protest against that view, and asserted his 

 belief that the majority of scientific men were working toward the improvement of 

 things and that it was the destiny of science to be the salvation of the world. At 

 another time he unfolded the idea that man through science was approaching step 

 by step nearer the Infinite Ruler of the Universe, and that it was only through these 

 activities that he coiild hope to reach his proper destiny; that every amelioration of 

 life, every improvement in manners, every change in theological tenets was a token 

 of man's unfolding through the working of intellectual forces. 



Our lasting regret must be that Goode's life terminated just as he had 

 richly earned the right to retire from the scientific service of his country — 

 from your servnce and mine, my friends — to devote himself more exclu- 

 sively to his own researches. 



As early as 1880, during the Herculean task of entering the new 

 National Museum building, Goode remarked to one of his friends, "We 

 have had pretty hard scrambling — I think we will take a rest presently ' ' — 

 but, alas! the rest days never came. One duty after another fell heavily 

 upon his too-willing shoitlders. All must have observed in later years a 

 certain quiet melancholy which marked his overwork, and conscious 

 inability to cope with all that his ambitious and resourceful spirit 

 prompted. None the less he showed a continuous and rapid intellectual 

 development during the last ten years of his life, and it was evident that 

 his powers were constantly expanding, and that his brightest and most 

 productive days were to come in his projected independent and joint 

 researches. As before noted, his Geographical Distribution of Deep Sea 

 Fishes was nearly completed, the charts having been exhibited before 

 the Biological Society, and a mass of voluminous notes and valuable 

 • observations are ready to show that the distribution of deep-sea fishes is 

 far from being so general as has been supposed, and that there are certain 



