58 Memorial of George Broivn Goode. 



But there was a scientific interest which attached to this work, as well 

 as an historical one, for Doctor Goode was a strong believer in heredity, 

 and he was profoundly impressed with the idea that man's capabilities 

 and tendencies were to be explained by the characteristics of the men 

 and women whose blood flowed through their veins. 



This idea, too, is brought out strongly in his biographical work, 

 nowhere more strongly than in his biographies of Henry, Baird, and 

 Langley (almost the last work he ever did) for the Smithsonian Memo- 

 rial Volume, and it is carefully worked out in an elaborate plan of a 

 biography of Professor Baird, which would probably have been the next 

 literary work he would have undertaken had his life been spared. 



He was greatly interested in bibliography, his methods in this work 

 being most exact. He published bibliographies of Spencer Fullerton 

 Baird, Charles Girard, Philip Lutley Sclater, and had under way bibli- 

 ographies of Theodore Gill and David Starr Jordan. 



A gigantic work in the same line [says Dr. Gill] had been projected by him and 

 most of the materials collected; it was no less than a complete bibliography of 

 Ichthyology, including the names of all genera and species published as new. In 

 no way may Ichthyology, at least, more feel the loss of Goode than in the loss of 

 the complete bibliography. 



Mr. Goode was a student of the history of the scientific societies, and 

 was himself deepl}^ interested in their welfare. In all the Washington 

 scientific societies he was an active member, serving as president both of 

 the Biological Society and the Philosophical Society, before which he 

 delivered notable addresses on the history of American science. He 

 also belonged to the Anthropological and Geographic societies of Wash- 

 ington and stoutly maintained the traditions of all these. He was elected 

 a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 1888, was for many 

 years a member of the Association for the Advancement of Science, being 

 elected vice-president of the zoological section last summer, a few daj^s 

 before his death. He was a member of the American Philosophical 

 Society, of the American Society of Naturalists, and a Fellow of the 

 American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and among foreign societies he 

 had been honored by election to the Societe des Amis des Sciences Nat- 

 urelles de Moscou, Societe Zoologique de France, Zoological Society of 

 Loudon, and the Societe Scientifique du Chile. 



He seemed to regard historical and patriotic societies with an equal 

 interest, being a member of the council of the American Historical 

 A.ssociation and a member of the Virginia Historical Society, and the 

 Columbian Historical Society of Washington, and of the newly formed 

 Southern Historical Society. His work in connection with the hereditary 

 and patriotic societies was so especially near to him as to demand an 

 unusual mention. He was one of the organizers of the Sons of the 

 American Revolution of the District of Columbia, holding the offices of 

 vice-president-general and registrar-general in the national society, and at 



