6 Memorial of George Brown Goode. 



through the Museum and open to him its treasures, or prepare a scheme 

 for an exposition at Chicago or Atlanta. Into the work of the Museum 

 he threw his whole heart and life. He knew it in all its strength 

 and weakness, its deficiencies, its wealth, its possibilities, and therefore 

 believed in its glorious future. He knew it in all its different depart- 

 ments — in its minute details. He welcomed every new object that was 

 brought into the Museum and directed its disposition. He refused the 

 appointment of Commissioner of Fisheries and remained in charge of the 

 Museum at a smaller salary, because he felt his services were more needed 

 there. He was urged last summer to go to the Seal Islands, a trip he 

 would gladly have taken, but he was reluctant to leave his work. He 

 remained to die at his post. ^ 



Others will speak of him in his public relations; others can CvStimate 

 his scientific attainments and the debt of gratitude the Museum owes to 

 his faithful and skillful administration; others will weave and lay upon 

 his tomb wreaths and garlands. I bring but a few violets, the expres- 

 sion of my personal love and esteem. He was a friend whom I loved 

 and whom I miss from my daily life. 



