54 Memorial of George Broivn Goode. 



exhibition work everywhere. But ever}^ administrative activity of this 

 sort was sure to result in some hterary product, so that we find in 1876 

 Mr. Goode pubhshed A Classification of the Collections to illustrate the 

 Animal Resources of the United States: A list of .substances derived 

 from the animal kingdom, with synopsis of the useful and injurious ani- 

 mals, and a classification of the methods of capture and utilization. This 

 work was afterwards published in an enlarged form as a bulletin of the 

 National Museum. 



His services as commissioner for the United States Government at the 

 Fisheries Exhibition of Berlin in 1880 and I^ondon in 1883 have already 

 been alluded to. These, too, resulted in several articles in German and in 

 a bulletin of the Museum, while several addresses and papers delivered 

 at the Conferences of the International Fisheries Exhibition in London 

 were published in the papers of the conferences, and full reports were 

 made by Doctor Goode on his return to this countr}' and published at 

 the Government Printing Office. 



He was the representative of the Smithsonian Institution at all the 

 subsequent exhibitions held in this countr}- — lyouisville, 1884; New 

 Orleans, 1885; Cincinnati, 1888; Chicago, 1893, '^'^^^ Atlanta, 1895 — 

 serving also as a commissioner and for a time acting Commissioner- Gen- 

 eral to the Columbian Exposition held at Madrid in 1892. 



The exhibits made under his direction were never repetitions. Each 

 one contained new material never shown before, and exhibited the prog- 

 ress of the Institution and Museum, as well as the advances made in 

 the arts of taxiderm}^, installation, and labeling. Mr. Goode, too, 

 always bore in mind the local interest, and endeavored to show speci- 

 mens and materials which would be instructive to persons residing in the 

 neighborhood of the place at which the exposition was held. Thus at 

 Cincinnati objects were prominent which related to the Ohio Valley, for 

 Madrid he prepared an exhibit to illustrate the conditions of human and 

 animal life in America at the time of the Spanish discovery, whilst at 

 Atlanta especial stress was laid on showing the fauna, flora, archaeology, 

 and mineral resources of the South Atlantic States. He prepared the 

 report on the Madrid Exposition, and at the request of the Governfnent 

 Commission drew up a provisional classification for the Chicago Exposi- 

 tion, which, while not formally accepted, was used throughout in the 

 official classification, many pages being copied without a change. For 

 the Chicago, as well as the Atlanta Exposition, he prepared a carefully 

 written catalogue, and for the latter an excellently condensed sketch of 

 the Smithsonian Institution. 



Nowhere were Mr. Goode' s administrative talents more strongly 

 shown than in an exhibition. The plans of the floor space, the cases, 

 the specimens were all carefully arranged in advance. Boxes were 

 especially made of lumber which could be utilized for cases or platforms. 

 Cases were marked, and not very long before the opening of the exposi- 



