50 Memorial of George Brown Goode. 



Animal Resources of the United States,' a work of 126 pages; three years later this 

 catalogue served as the basis for and was elaborated and expanded into a large Cata- 

 logue of the Collection to illustrate the Animal Resources and the Fisheries of the 

 United States,^ a volume of 351 pages. These catalogues were for the tentative and 

 adopted arrangement of material exhibited by the Smithsonian Institution and the 

 United States Fish Conmiission at the International Exhibition, 1876. 



It was the ability that was manifested in these catalogues and the work incidental 

 to their preparation that especially arrested the attention of Professor Baird and 

 marked the author as one well adapted for the direction of a great museum. For 

 signal success in such direction special qualifications are requisite. Only some of 

 them are a mind well trained in analytical as well as synthetic methods, an artistic 

 sense, critical ability, and multifarious knowledge, but above all the knowledge of 

 men and how to deal with them. Perhaps no one has ever combined in more har- 

 monious proportions, such qualifications than G. Brown Goode. In him the National 

 Museum of the United States and the world at large have lost one of the greatest of 

 museum administrators. 



As a naturalist, the attention of Doctor Goode was especially directed to and even 

 concentrated on the fishes. His memoirs, contributed mostly to the Proceedings of 

 the United States National Museum, were numerous and chiefly descriptive of new 

 .species. (For many of these he had, as a collaborator Doctor Tarleton Bean, then 

 the curator of fishes of the United States National Mu.seum. ) Some of the memoirs, 

 however, dealt with special groups, as the Menhaden (1S79), Ostraciontidae (18S0), 

 Carangidse (1881), the Swordfishes (1881), and the Bel (1882). His monograph of 

 the Menhaden [Brevoorlia tyrannus) contributed originally to the Report of the 

 United States Commissioner of Fisheries 3 and then published as a separate work-* — 

 a large volume of nearly 550 pages and with 30 plates — is a model of critical treat- 

 ment of information collected from all quarters. But his most important contribu- 

 tions were published as official Government reports and were the results of investiga- 

 tions especially undertaken for such reports. Especially noteworthy were the 

 volumes comprising the results of the census of 1880. 



The 1880 census was planned and carried out on an unusual scale. For the fish- 

 eries the United States Commission of Fish and Fisheries cooperated and Doctor 

 Goode had general charge of the entire work. The assistants and special agents 



'International Exhibition, 1876. Board in behalf of United States Executive 

 Departments. Classification of the Collection to illustrate the Animal Resources of 

 the United States. A list of substances derived from the animal kingdom, with 

 synopsis of the useful and injurious animals and a classification of the methods 

 of capture and utilization. Washington: Government Printing Office. 1876. (8° 

 pp. 126, a Second edition with supplem^-ntary title as Bulletin No. 6, United States 

 National Museum). 



2 International Exhibition, 1876. Catalogue of the Collection to illustrate the 

 Animal Resources and the Fisheries of the United States, exhibited at Philadelphia 

 in 1S76 by the Smithsonian Institution and the United States Fish Commission, and 

 forming a part of the United States National Museum. Washington: Government 

 Printing Office. 1879. (8°, pp. 351. (i) — Bulletin United States National Museum, 

 No. 14). 



3The Natural and Economical History of the American Menhaden. In Report 

 United States Commission of Fish and Fisheries, Part v, 1879, Appendix A, pp. 1-529, 

 pis. i-xxxi (xxx canceled), pp. 194-267 by Professor W. O. Atwater. 



■» American Fisheries. A History of the Menhaden by G. Brown Goode, with an 

 account of the Agricultural Uses of Fish by W. O. Atwater. . . . And an intro- 

 duction, bringing the subject down to date. Thirty plates. New York: Orange 

 Judd Company, 1880. (8° pp. x (i), iii-xii, 1-529 (i) ; 31 pis., pi. 30 canceled). 



