GEORGE BROWN GOODE 



ZOOLOGIST 



1851-1896 

 BY DAVID STARR JORDAN 



THE untimely death of George Brown Goode left a great break 

 in the ranks of the scientific men of America. One of the most 

 accurate and devoted of students, the ablest exponent of museum 

 methods, a man of the most exalted personal character, Doctor 

 Goode occupied a unique position in the development of American 

 science. 



George Brown Goode was born in New Albany, Indiana, on 

 February 13, 1851, and died of pneumonia at his home on Lanier 

 Heights in Washington City on September 6, 1896. According to 

 Dr. Marcus Benjamin, to whom I am indebted for many of the 

 details of this sketch: 



"Doctor Goode was of Colonial descent. His family lived in 

 Virginia, and he traced with pride his paternal line to John Goode, 

 who came to that colony prior to 1660, and settled four miles from 

 the present site of Richmond, on an estate which he named 

 ' Whitby.' John Goode was one of the advisers of Bacon in 1676, 

 in the first armed uprising of the Americans against the oppression 

 of royal authority. On his mother's side he was descended from 

 Jasper Crane, who came to New England before 1630, and after- 

 wards settled near the present site of Newark, New Jersey. 

 Doctor Goode's father was Francis Collier Goode, who married, 

 in 1850, Sarah Woodruff Crane, and their distinguished son was 

 born at the home of his maternal grandfather." 



In 1857, Mr. Goode's parents moved to Amenia, in New 

 York state, where the boy passed his early youth, and where he was 



