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were consequently selected with judgment ;uid the results were very valuable. 

 The huge mass of statistics was digested and condensed in seven large quarto 

 volumes representing five sections separately devoted to special branches of the 

 subject.' 



Doctor Goode's cares were mainly concentrated on the first section, treating of 

 the Natural Historj' of Aquatic Animals, which was discussed in over 900 pages of 

 text and illustrated by 277 plates. This work was by far the most complete survey 

 of the economical fishes of the country that had ever appeared and has since been 

 the most prized; it led to another. 



After the appearance of the census volumes, Doctor Goode was urged to prepare a 

 work for popular iise. His consent to do so was followed by a volume, entitled 

 American Fishes, A Popular Treatise upon the Game and Food Fishes of North 

 America,-' published by the Standard Book Company of New York. Inasmuch as 

 none of the previous popular works on the American fishes had emanated from men 

 of scientific eminence, it scarcely need be added that the new work had no rival in 

 the field, so far as accurate information and details of habits were involved. 



A short time previously Doctor Goode had also prepared the text to accompany a 

 series of twenty large folio colored portraits by an eminent artist, Mr. 55. A. Kil- 

 bourne, of the principal Game Fishes of the United States.3 



Never had investigations of the deep sea been conducted with such assiduity and 

 skill as during the last two decades. The chief honors of the explorations were 

 carried off by the British and American governments. As the fishes obtained 

 by the vessels of the United States Fish Commission were brought in, they were 

 examined by Doctor Goode (generally in company with Doctor Bean) and duly 

 described. At length Doctors Goode and Bean combined together data respecting 

 all the known forms occurring in the abysmal depths of the ocean and also those 

 of the open sea, and published a r^sum^ of the entire subject in two large volumes 

 entitled Oceanic Ichthyology.'* 



This was a fitting crown to the work on which they had been engaged so long 

 and the actual publication only preceded Doctor Goode's death by a few weeks. 



But the published volumes did not represent all the work of Doctor Goode on the 

 abyssalian fishes. He had almost completed an elaborate memoir on the distribu- 



' The Fisheries and Fishery Industry of the United States. Prepared through the 

 cooperation of the Commissioner of Fisheries and the vSuperintendent of the Tenth 

 Census. By George Brown Goode, Assistant Director of the United States National 

 Museum, and a staff of associates. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1884 

 (-1887, 5 sections in 7 volumes). Section I, Natural History of Aquatic Animals, 

 was mainly prepared by Doctor Goode. 



^American Fishes. A Popular Treatise upon the Game and Food Fishes of North 

 America, with especial reference to habits and methods of capture,. By G. Brown 

 Goode. With numerous illustrations. New York ; Standard Book Company. 1888. 

 (8°, XVI + 496 pp., colored frontispiece. ) 



3 Game Fished of the United States. By S. A. Kilbourne. Text by G. Brown Goode. 

 New York : Published by Charles Scribner's Sons. 1879-1881. (Folio, 46 pp., 20 

 plates and map.— published in ten parts, each with 2 plates, lithographs in water 

 color, and iowx page folio of text. ) 



"Smithsonian Institution. United States National Museum. Special Bulletin. 

 Oceanic Ichthyology. A Treatise on the Deep-sea and Pelagic Fishes of the World, 

 based chiefly upon the collections made by the steamers Blake, Albatross, and Fish 

 Hawk in the Northwestern Atlantic, with an atlas containing 417 figures, by George 

 Brown Goode, Ph. D., DL. D., and Tarleton H. Bean, M. D., M. S. Washington: 

 Oovernment Printing Office. 1895. 2 vols., 4°; I, xxxv + 26*, 553 pp.; II, xxiii + 26* 

 pp., 123 pis. 



