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in 1880. The preparation of the record of the fisheries and associated aciuatic indus- 

 tries was placed in his hands 1)}' Francis A. Walker, vSuperintciident of the Census. 

 Under Doctor Goode's direction skilled investigators were sent to every part of the 

 coast and inland waters of the countr}-. 



His American Fishes, a poptilar treatise upon the game aud food fishes 

 of North America, pubhshed iu 1888, is deserving of a special mention 

 both because of the charming literary stjde in which it is written as well 

 as its scientific accuracy and excellence. The wealth and aptness of the 

 chapter headings of this book show that Mr. Goode's wide reading was 

 associated with everything which could illustrate liis science on the 

 literary side. He had a knowledge of everything even remotely con- 

 nected with his ichthyological researches, from St. Anthony's Sermon 

 to Fishes, to the literature of fish cookery, while in one of his earliest 

 papers, written at nineteen, his fondness for Isaac Walton and his 

 familiarity with him are evident. 



While never claiming the title of anthropologist, he was j'et a close 

 student of the anthropological and ethnological work in this country and 

 abroad, and it is not too much to say that no professional anthropologist 

 had a higher ideal of what his science might come to be or exercised a 

 more discriminating criticism on its present methods and conditions than 

 did Doctor Goode. He was, moreover, not only interested in the bio- 

 logical problems of the anthropologist, but iu technolog}' and the history 

 of art. The history of human invention and archaeology were equally in 

 his mind, and his suggestiveness in each of these fields could be attested 

 by all of the anthropologists with whom he came in contact. 



It would be difficult [says Professor Mason] to find among those who are pro- 

 fessional anthropologists a man who had a more exalted idea of what this science 

 ought to be. There is not, perhaps, another distinguished scholar who has endeav- 

 ored to collect into one great anthropological scheme all of the knowledge of all 

 men in all ages of the world and in all stages of culture. 



Doctor Goode was peculiarly related to the management of expositions 

 and did more than any other person in America to engraft upon them 

 musemn ideas and widen their scope from the merely connnercial and 

 indtistrial to the educational and scientific. 



His first experience in this field was in 1876, at the Centennial Exhi- 

 bition held in Philadelphia. Professor Baird was in charge of the exhibits 

 of the Smithsonian Institution and P^ish Commi.ssion, and l)eing nuich 

 occupied at the time with other matters, the greater part of the installa- 

 tion and other work connected with the exhibit was placed tuider the 

 immediate stipervision of Mr. Goode. The work done by the Smithso- 

 nian and Govennnent departments at this exhibition was pioneer work, 

 it being the first international exhibition in which the United States Gov- 

 ernment was engaged. It is not too nuich to say that the arrangement 

 of the vSmithsonian exhilnt at Philadelphia was the model on which all 

 subsequent exhibits of the kind were based, and that the classification, 

 the installation, and the arrangement have had a lasting influence on 



