20 Memorial of George Brozvn Goode. 



ami the investigators seem to me to be strangely indifferent to the questions as to 

 how the pubhc at large is to be made familiar with the results of their labors. . . . 

 It may be that the use of the word naturalist is to become an anachronism, and that 

 we are all destined to become generically biologists and specifically morphologists, 

 histologists, embryologists, physiologists. . . . 



I can but believe, however, that it is the duty of every scientific scholar, however 

 minute his specialty, to resist in himself, and in the professional circles which sur- 

 round him, the tendency toward narrowing technicality in thought and sympathy, 

 and above all in the education of nonprofessional students. 



I can not resist the feeling that American men of science are in a large degree 

 responsible if their fellow-citizens are not fully awake to the claims of scientific 

 endeavor in their midst. . . . 



I am not in sympathy with those who feel that their dignity is lowered when their 

 investigations lead toward improvement in the ph3'sical condition of mankind, but 

 I feel that the highest function of science is to minister to their mental and moral 

 welfare. Here in the United States, more than in any other country, it is necessary 

 that sound, accurate knowledge and a scientific manner of thought should exist 

 among the people, and the man of science is becoming, more than ever, the natural 

 custodian of the treasured knowledge of the world. To him, above all others, falls 

 the duty of organizing and maintaining the institutions for the diffusion of knowl- 

 edge, many of which have been spoken of in these addresses — the schools, the 

 museums, the expositions, the societies, the periodicals. To him, more than to any 

 other American, should be made familiar the words of President Washington in his 

 farewell address to the American people: 



" Promote, then, as an object of primary importance, institutions for the general 

 diffusion of knowledge. In proportion as the structure of a government gives force 

 to public opinions it should be enlightened." 



As a naturalist Goode did not close any of the windows opening otit 

 into nature. His breadth of spirit in public affairs displayed itself equally 

 in his methods of field and .sea work and in the variety of his observa- 

 tions and writings. While fishes became his chief interest, he knew all 

 the Eastern species of birds after identifying and arranging the collection 

 in his college museum. He loved plants, and in the latter years of his 

 life took great pleasure in the culture of the old-fashioned garden around 

 his house. He was not wedded to his desk, to dry bones, nor to alcoholic 

 jars. His sea studies and travels ranged as early as 1872 from the Ber- 

 mudas to Kastport on the Bay of Fundy; to Casco Bay in 1873, to Noank, 

 on Long Island Sound, in 1874. Here he conceived a great Index 

 Bibliography of American Ichthyology, a work which he did not live 

 to complete, and here he met his future colleague, Bean, who describes 

 him as " a young man with plump cheeks and a small moustache." 

 During the following two years his assistant curatorship at the National 

 Museum confined him, btit in 1877 he was studying the fisheries off 

 Halifax, and in 1879 at Provincetown. The work of the fishery census 

 was starting up in earnest, and Goode was busy planning and getting 

 together his men. Special agents were sent out, to every part of the 

 coast and to the Great Lakes, to gather information. Goode worked at it 

 himself on Cape Cod, and manifested the same enthusiasm as in every 

 other piece of work he took up. He interested himself in getting together 



