46 Memorial of George Brozvn Goode. 



ciates, but down to the humblest employees of the Museum, was an indi- 

 vidual to him, with traits of character which were his own and not 

 another's, and which were recognized in all dealings, and in this I think 

 he was peculiar, for I have known no man who seemed to possess this 

 sympathetic insight in such a degree, and certainly it was one of the 

 sources of his strength. 



I shall have given, however, a wrong idea of him if I leave anyone 

 under the impression that this sympathy led to weakness of rule. He 

 knew how to say ' ' no, ' ' and said it as often as any other, and would rep- 

 rehend, where occasion called, in terms the plainest and most uncompro- 

 mising a man could use, speaking so when he thought it necessary, even 

 to those whose association was voluntary, but who somehow were not 

 alienated as they would have been by such censure from another. ' ' He 

 often refused me what I most wanted," said one of his staff to me; " but 

 I never went to sleep without having in my own mind forgiven him." 



I have spoken of some of the moral qualities which made all rely upon 

 him and which were the foundation of his ability to deal with men. To 

 them was joined that scientific knowledge without which he could not 

 have been a museum administrator ; but even with this knowledge he 

 could not have been what he was, except from the fact that he loved the 

 Museum and its administration above every other pursuit, even, I think, 

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

 man of the widest interests I have ever known, so that whatever he 

 was speaking 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 

 administration, 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 deter- 

 mining 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 the)^ 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, 



