48 Memorial of George Broivn Goode. 



him collecting the fivShes of the Bermudas, which he worked up in a cata- 

 logue, giving in each case, in addition to characteristics previously noted, 

 descriptions of the colors of the fishes while living, notes on the size and 

 proportions, observations of habits, hints in reference to the origin and 

 meaning of their popular names, and notes upon modes of capture of 

 economic value. The same careful methods of collection he followed in 

 the subsequent expeditions which he undertook in the field. It was not 

 alone in natural history, however, that this talent for collecting displayed 

 itself. Every possible sort of specimen or information which was at 

 hand he collected. He would bring back from every exposition which 

 he attended methodical collections, frequently of materials overlooked by 

 others. Every visit to a foreign country resulted in the bringing back 

 of a collection, not of miscellaneous objects, but of a series which could 

 themselves be placed on exhibition. These might be musical instru- 

 ments, ecclesiastical art, early printed books, medals, or ivories, and the 

 same taste and discrimination and good judgment were displayed in their 

 selection. He collected, however, not only objects, but also words and 

 ideas. From the assembling of the common names of plants and animals 

 in America there grew a large collection of Americanisms, probably larger 

 than any single collection published. Portraits of scientific men, portraits 

 of Washington and Jefferson, autographs. Confederate imprints, Ameri- 

 cana, American scientific text-books — these are but a few of the fields 

 in which Doctor Goode collected. 



He was a naturalist in the broadest sense of that word, following in 

 the footsteps of Agassiz and Baird. 



He had [says Doctor Gill] acquaintance with several classes of the animal king- 

 dom, and especially with the vertebrates. He even published several minor contri- 

 butions on herpetology, the voices of crustaceans, and other subjects. . . . The 

 flowering plants also enlisted much of his attention, and his excursions into the fields 

 and woods were enlivened by a knowledge of the objects he met with. 



The designation naturalist [says Professor Osborn] was one which Goode richly 

 earned and which he held most dear, and our deep sorrow is that his activity as nat- 

 uralist extended only over a quarter of a century. ... As a naturalist Goode did 

 not close any of the windows opening out 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 observations 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 later years of his life took great 

 pleasure in the culture of the old-fashioned garden around his house. . . . Many 

 of his briefer papers deal directly with the biological problems which attracted his 

 interest, especially among reptiles and fishes, touching such questions as migration, 

 coloring, albinism, mimicry, parasitism, feeding and breeding habits, the relation of 

 forest protection to the protection of fishes. 



Perhaps no one can be a "naturalist" in the larger .sense without 

 being directly a lover of Nature and of all natural sights and sounds. 

 One of his family says : 



He taught us all the forest trees, their fruits and flowers in season, and to know 

 them when bare of leaves by their shapes ; all the wayside shrubs, and even the 



