358 Memorial of George Brozvn Goode. 



scholars of his time — the Huxle}^ or the Stokes of his day — a man of 

 wide culture, a skillful astronomer, a profound mathematician, the author 

 of a standard treatise upon algebra, and a botanist, zoologist, and anthro- 

 pologist withal. " He had been the mathematical instructor of Raleigh, 

 and in obeying this summons to go forth upon the present expedition 

 gave to it," says Anderson, "the most valuable aid which could be 

 derived from human strength." ' 



This eminent man deserves more than a passing notice on this occasion, 

 and I have taken pains to luring together all that is known about him. 

 He was born at Oxford in 156c, or, as old Anthony Wood quaintly 

 expresses it, "he tumbled out of his mother's womb into the lap of the 

 Oxonian muses," and at an early age was entered as a scholar in St. 

 Mary's Hall, receiving his bachelor's degree in 1579. He was soon 

 received into Raleigh's family as his instructor in mathematics, and at 

 the age of twenty-five made his voyage to America. 



After his return he was introduced b}^ Raleigh to Henry Percy, Earl 

 of Northuml^erland, one of the most munificent patrons of science of that 

 day, who allowed him a pension of ^120 a 3'ear. "About the same 

 time," w^e are told, "Hues, well known by his Treatise upon the 

 Globes,^ and Walter Warner, who is said to have given Harvey the first 

 hint concerning the circulation of the blood, being both of them mathe- 

 maticians, received from him (Northumberland) pensions of less value; 

 so that in 1606, when the Earl was committed to the Tower for life, 

 Harriott, Hues, and Warner were his constant companions, and were 

 usually called the Earl of Northumberland's Magi." ^ 



One thing, at least, have three centuries accomplished for science. Its 

 greatest workers are not now, as they were at the beginning of the 

 seventeenth century, dependent upon the liberality and caprice of wealthy 

 men, classed as their "pensioners" and "servants," and assigned places 

 at their tables which they must needs accept or famish. 



Harriot appears to have passed the latter years of his life at Sion 

 College, near Isleworth, where he died in 1621. He was buried in St, 

 Christopher's Church, lyondon, and the following eulogy was embodied 

 in his epitaph: 



QUI OMNKS SCIKNTIAS CAI^LUIT AC IN OMNIBUS EXCELLUIT 

 MATHEMATICIS, PHILOSOPHICIS, THEOLOGICIS, 

 VERITATIS, INDAGATOR STUDIOSISSIMUS, 

 " DEI TRINIUNIUS PIISSIMUS. 



'James S. M. Anderson, History of the Church of England in the Colonies, p. 86, 

 London, 1845-56. 

 . = Robert Hues, Tractatus de Globis, etc., 161 1-63. 



3 Harriot was also a friend and companion of Raleigh during his imprisonment in 

 the Tower (1603-1616), and was his collaborator in the preparation of the History 

 of the World. His fidelity was rewarded by that distinguished authority. Chief 

 Justice Popham, who denounced him from the bench as "a devil." 



