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Mr. Valdemar Knudsen, of Honolulu, Hawaii, wrote: 



The card announcing the death of George Brown Goode, LL. D., lias just been 



received, and my full sympathy for his loss to your institution and to mankind in 



general is hereby humbly tendered. 



Doctor Karl Mobius, of Berlin, wrote, under date of January 26, 1897: 

 The unexpected death of Mr. George Brown Goode has deeply affected me. We 



were in agreeable communication, to the advantage of our museums. We have lost 



in him a distinguished promoter of our scientific efforts. 



Professor Alfonso L. Herrera, of the National Museum in Mexico, 

 wrote : 



I have received the notice of the lamented death of George Brown Goode, LL. D., 

 and after thanking you for this mark of attention, I offer my most sincere condo- 

 lence, and on my part I deplore the loss sustained by science, the National Museum, 

 the Smithsonian Institution, and all persons who, like myself, had the good fortune 

 to receive consideration from the deceased. I shall never forget his kindness and 

 courtesy. 



Mr. John Crawford, of Managua, Nicaragua, wrote: 



On my return here from an excursion among the mountains I learned with much 

 surprise and great regret of the death of Doctor G. Brown Goode. On many occa- 

 sions he was very patient and kind to me, and no doubt was so to many other natu- 

 ralists who, like myself, are far from museums and the advantages of dail}' conferring 

 with and receiving instruction from scientists. I esteemed him highly, and had 

 hoped that he would live many years in good health, and in physical and mental 

 vigor continue and enjoy his useful life. 



Mr. Julius Neumann, of the Chinese Custom Service, Shasi, China, on 

 March 15, 1897, wrote: 



It was with extreme regret that I have just received your card of the i6tli of 

 November last announcing the death of Professor G. Brown Goode, and I write this 

 note to condole with you on the loss your great Institution and science at large 

 have to deplore. 



I had the pleasure of meeting the deceased first in London in 1883, and then in 

 the following year in New Orleans, and ever since we had kept up friendly relations. 

 I shall always fondly cherish his memory. 



The Honorable John Boyd Thacher, of Albany, New York, wrote: 



My personal knowledge of Professor Brown Goode began in 1S90, when he gave 

 his advice and counsel to the World's Columbian Commission in classifying the 

 various objects into proper departments for exhibition, and more particularly in 

 advising and establishing an adequate method in passing judgment upon the exhibits. 

 In these matters I can testify to his ability and consummate skill. It was purely 

 voluntary service he rendered, and I at once formed — and have since maintained— a 

 profound sense of his goodness to those who were officially charged with work for 

 which he knew we were most imperfectly equipped, and to whom he gave not only 

 suggestions but detailed and elaborate and finished plans. It is the glor}' of the 

 modern scientist and scholar that he subordinates him.self to the accomplishment of 

 public work. Our friend never a.sked to be identified personally with the accom- 

 plished thing. It was enough for him to know that some good was done and not 

 that the world should know that it was done by him. The utter absence of selfish- 

 ness in any life is worthy of recording in brass or in marble or in fornmlated words. 



