18743 At Noank 



the man 



organization of the National Museum as a means of 

 popular education as well as of scientific research. 



No unkind word was ever said of Goode either in Coode 

 life or after death. In 1897, at the request of the 

 Smithsonian authorities, I prepared a brief sketch 

 of his work, quoting the following from our mutual 

 colleague, Gill, of whom more hereafter: 



His disposition was a bright and sunny one, and he in- 

 gratiated himself in the affections of his friends in a marked 

 degree. He had a hearty way of meeting intimates, and a 

 caressing cast of the arm over the shoulder of such a one often 

 followed sympathetic intercourse. But in spite of his gentle- 

 ness, firmness and vigor became manifest where occasion called 

 for them. 



Goode's most important scientific treatise, "Oce- 

 anic Ichthyology," in part the work of Dr. Tarleton 

 H. Bean, his associate (who, by the way, was at 

 Noank), appeared shortly before his death. 



At Noank — or near by, at Yale — I also met Feniii 

 Addison E. Verrill, another distinguished student 

 of Agassiz, with whom I had frequent relations in 

 later years. There, too, I found my old Cornell 

 friend, Rathbun, then a volunteer assistant on the 

 Fish Commission, of which in time he became the 

 guiding spirit; and Alpheus Hyatt, one of Agassiz's 

 best students, busily engaged in the study of sponges, 

 a fact which recalls a bit of pleasantry at his expense. 

 A young woman visitor being about to marry, 

 somebody read one evening a poem of congratulation 

 purporting to be by Professor Hyatt. In this, as a 

 climax, he was quoted as saying: 



Now thirteen of my best sponges 

 Will I give her as a dower! 



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and 

 Hyatt 



