1 6 Moiiorial of George Bf^07vn Goode. 



large. He was one of the Council of the American Historical Associa- 

 tion, and it was particularly through his efforts that the connection 

 between that association and the vSmithsonian Institution was brought 

 about. He was one of the organizers here but a few months ago of the 

 Southern History Association, and took great interest in the work that 

 is projected by it. He was connected with the great organizations, the 

 Sons of the American Revolution and the Sons of the Revolution, presi- 

 dent of the first and vice-president of the other, and not as a mere office- 

 holder, not as a mere member, but as a zealous, enthusiastic, intelligent 

 worker. 



But Doctor Goode was not only a historian in this respect and in 

 this peculiar wa3^ He was also a historian of science, and he seems here 

 likewise to have followed the same general idea of grouping scientific 

 history — the history of scientific progress — around the particular men 

 and individuals connected with that progress. 



I am assured by those who are more capable of speaking authoritatively 

 on such a subject than I am, that in certain papers of his, partly pub- 

 lished, and partly as 3^et unpublished, he has given us the most interest- 

 ing and instructive history yet produced of the progress of science in the 

 United States ; so that it is not attributing to Doctor Goode a novel and 

 undeserved character to speak of him to-night as a historian. Had his 

 life been spared, in his peculiar way, in his own personal and attractive 

 maimer, he would doubtless have made most substantial contributions to 

 the study of American history, and I can not doubt, as I have already 

 said, that in doing this he was impelled by the patriotic idea that he was 

 helping to build up a strong American intelligent citizenship in the 

 country he loved so well. 



