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XII. — Obituary. — Dr. Brown Goode and Auguste Salle. 



Dr. Brown Goode^ whose unexpected death at the early age 

 of 45 years, his many friends in Europe will have heard of with 

 great regret, was not, strictly speaking, an ornithologist. But 

 as for the last nine years he had been, in the execution of his 

 office of assistant-secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, in 

 charge of the National Museum of the U. S. at Washington, 

 and was unfailing in promoting the progress and improve- 

 ment of the great collection of birds which it contains, some 

 few lines in ' The Ibis ' may well be devoted to his memory. 

 Dr. Brown Goode, who was born in the State of Indiana in 

 185], and graduated in 1870 at the Wesleyan University of 

 Middletown, Connecticut, joined the U. S. Fish Commission, 

 first as a volunteer under Professor Baird, and subsequently 

 became one of its officials. Under such circumstances he 

 naturally devoted himself chiefly to ichthyology, and was the 

 author of several excellent publications on Fishes and Fisheries. 

 He was also U. S. Commissioner to the Fisheries Exhibition 

 at Berlin in 1880, and at London in 1883, on which latter 

 occasion several of us had the pleasure of making his personal 

 acquaintance. Recently, in connection with his office as head 

 of the U. S. National Museum, which he assumed in 1888, 

 he devoted much of his time and talents to the study of the 

 principles of museum administration, and on this subject 

 prepared an excellent memoir, which has been reprinted from 

 the Annual Report of the Museums Association for 1895^. 

 In the course of this essay he points out that the degree of 

 civilization to which any nation has attained is best shown by 

 the character of its public museums and the liberality with 

 which they are maintained. To borrow the words of one of our 

 contemporaries, Dr. Brown Goode '' combined in a rare degree 

 administrative ability with talent as a scientific investigator, 

 while a charming personality smoothed his way to success." 



Auguste Salle. — The name of Auguste Salle, naturalist 

 and traveller, should have been included in our obituary for 



* * The Principles of Museum Administration.' By G. Brown Goode, 

 M.A., LL.D. York : 1895. 



