lO Memorial of George Broivn Goode. 



these capacities alone, a biography might be written ; but his well-founded 

 claim to be considered a literary man as well as a man of science, rests as 

 much on the excellent English style ; clear, direct, unpretentious, in which 

 he has treated these subjects, as on his love of literature in general. I 

 pass them, however, with this inadequate mention, from my incompetence 

 to deal with him as a genealogist, and because his aspect as a historian 

 will be presented by another; but while I could only partly follow him 

 in his genealogical studies, we had together, among other common tastes, 

 that love of general literature just spoken of, and I, who have been a 

 widel)^ discursive reader, have never met a mind in touch with more far- 

 away and disconnected points than his, nor one of more breadth and 

 variety of reading, outside of the range of its own specialty. This read- 

 ing was also, however, associated with a love of everything which could 

 illustrate his special science on this literary side. The extent of this 

 illustration is well shown by the wealth and aptness of quotation in the 

 chapter headings of his American Fishes, his Game Fishes of North 

 America, and the like, and in his knowledge of everything thus 

 remotely connected with his ichthyologic researches, from St. Anthony's 

 Sermon to Fishes, to the lyiterature of Fish Cookery, while in one of his 

 earliest papers, written at nineteen, his fondness for Isaac Walton and 

 his familiarity with him, are evident. He had a love for everything to do 

 with books, such as specimens of printing and binding, and for etchings 

 and engravings, and he was an omnivorous reader, but he read to collect, 

 and oftenest in connection with the enjoyment of his outdoor life and all 

 natural things. One of these unpublished collections. The Music of 

 Nature, contains literally thousands of illustrated poems or passages 

 from his favorite poets. 



These were his recreations, and among these little excursions into 

 literature, "the most pathetic, and yet in some respects the most con- 

 solatory," says his literary executor, "seems to have been suggested 

 by an article on the literary advantages of weak health, for with this 

 thought in mind he had collected from various sources accounts of literary 

 work done in feeble health, which he brought together under the title 

 Mens Sana in Corpore /7/sano." 



Still another collection was of poems relating to music, of which he was 

 an enthusiastic lover. He sang and played well, but this I only learned 

 after his death, for it was characteristic of his utter absence of display, that 

 during our nine 3^ears' intimacy he never let me know that he had such 

 accomplishments ; though that he had a large acquaintance with musical 

 instruments I was, of course, aware from the collections he had made. 



We nnist think of him with added sympathy, when we know that he 

 lost the robust health he once enjoyed, at that early time during his first 

 connection with the Museum, when he gave himself with such uncalcu- 

 lating devotion to his work as to overtask every energy and permanently 

 impair his strength. It was only imperfectly restored when his excessive 



