44S M('))ioriaI of George Bro7vii Goode. 



William Bartram, and the ornithologist Wilson. At the age of twenty- 

 five, having been unsuccessful as an apothecary, he gave his whole time 

 to zoology. He vSlept in the hall of the Academj^ of Natural Sciences, 

 where he made his bed beneath the skeleton of a horse, and fed himself 

 upon bread and milk. He was wont, we are told, to regard eating as an 

 inconvenient interruption to scientific pursuits, and to wish that he had 

 been created with a hole in his side through which his food might be 

 introduced into his system. He built up the museum of the society, 

 and made extensive contributions to biological .science. 



His article on conchology, published in 18 16 in the American edition 

 of Nicholson's Cyclopaedia, was the foundation of that science in this 

 country, and w^as republished in Philadelphia in 18 19, with the title, 

 A Description of the land and fresh-water Shells of the United States. 



This work [remarked a contemporary] ought to be in the possession of every 

 American lover of natural science. It has been quoted by M. L/amarck and adopted 

 by M. de Ferrusac, and has thus taken its place in the scientific world. 



Such was fame in America in the year of grace 1820. 



In 18 1 7 he did a similar service for .systematic entomology, and his 

 contributions to herpetology, to the sttid}- of marine invertebrates, espe- 

 cially the cru.stacea, and to that of invertebrate paleontolog}^, were equally 

 finidamental. 



As naturalist of Long's expeditions he described many Western verte- 

 brates, and also collected Indian vocabularies, and it is said that the 

 narrative of the expeditions was chiefly based upon the contents of his 

 note books. 



In 1825 he removed from Philadelphia to New Harmon^', Indiana, and, 

 in company with Maclure and Troost, became a member of the com- 

 munity founded there by Owen of I^anark. Comparatively little was 

 thenceforth done by him, and we can only regret the untimely close of 

 so brilliant a career.' 



Charles Alexander L,csueur [h. at Havre-de-Grace, France, January i, 

 1778; d. at Havre, December 12, 1846], the friend and a.s.sociate of 

 Maclure and Say, accompanied them to New Harmony. The romantic 

 life of this talented Frenchman has been well narrated in his Inography 

 by Ord."-' He was one of the staff of the Baudin expedition to Au.stralia 

 in 1800, and to his efforts, seconding those of Peron, his associate, were 

 due most of the scientific results which France obtained from that ill- 

 fated cnterpri.se. Lestiein', though a naturalist of considerable ability, 

 was, above all, an artist. The magnificent plates in the reports prepared 



' See a Memoir by B. H. Coates, read before American Philosophical Society, De- 

 cember ]6, 1834; a memoir by George Ord ; also a tribute to his memory in Ball's 

 presidential address before the Biological Society of Washington in January, 18S8. 



^George Ord, Memoir of Charles Alexander L,esueur. American Journal of 

 Science, VIII, 1849, P- 189. 



