RESOLUTIONS AND MESSAfxES OE SYMPATHY. 



On the completion of the reading of the formal addresses, General 

 Orlando B. Willcox, U. S. A., representing the Society of the Sons of the 

 American Revolution of the District of Columbia, offered the following 

 resolutions, which were seconded by Rear-Admiral James A. Greer, 

 U. S. N., representing the Society of the Sons of the Revolution, and 

 adopted by a rising vote: 



We, the associates and friends of the late George Brown Goode in the scientific, 

 patriotic, and historical societies of the city of Washington, being met together to 

 commemorate his life and service, do recognize: 



That in his death the world has lost a great man of trne moral worth, unnsnal 

 breadth of intellect, profound human sympathy, unswerving loyalty to his duty, and 

 dev'otion to his family and his friends. 



That America has been deprived of a most patriotic, public-spirited, and loyal 

 citizen, American science of its first historian, and American history of an original 

 investigator. 



That universal science has lost one of its foremost ichthyologists and a man broadly 

 learned in the entire field of natural history. 



That the scientific service of the United States Government, the societies to which 

 he belonged, and all the institutions in America for the promotion of knowledge 

 have lost in him an ever faithfvil and willing cooperator. 



Resolved^ That this minute be communicated to the societies of which Doctor 

 Goode Avas a member and a copy be sent to his family, to whom the persons here 

 assembled extend their sincere sympathy. 



RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED I\ THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION. 



By the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution: 



Whereas the assistant secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, Doctor G. Brown 

 Goode, died on September 6, 1896, 



Resolved, That the Board of Regents wish to here record their sense of the devotion 

 to duty which in the late Doctor Goode came before any consideration of personal 

 advancement, or even before the care of his own health, and of their recognition 

 that his high administrative ability and wide knowledge were devoted unselfishly 

 to the service of the Institution, with results whose value the)' can not too highly 

 acknowledge; and they desire to express their feeling of the loss that the Institution, 

 the National Museum, and the cause of science has su.stained in his untimely death. 



Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be suitably engrossed and transmitted 

 to the family of Doctor Goode. 



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