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cate specimens of fishes and other animals, which in turn were 

 presented by him to the museum in Middletown. 



Miss Lucy Baird writes (in a letter to Mr. T. D. A. Cockerell, 

 who sends me this item): " From the time of their first meeting a 

 warm personal attachment sprang up between them which deep- 

 ened every year up to the time of my father's death. From the 

 time when Mr. Goode became associated with the Museum work, 

 my father's burdens in connection therewith became greatly less- 

 ened, as year by year, Mr. Goode's ability in that line developed. 

 No cloud ever obscured their harmonious relations, I can recall 

 but one difference between them and that was on an occasion when 

 some idea had been carried out in connection with the Museum 

 work, an achievement in which they both felt a natural pride, 

 each was determined that all the credit belonged to the other. 

 They argued so strongly that they absolutely grew a little hot in 

 discussing the matter. My father wished Mr. Goode to take all 

 the credit, and Mr. Goode insisted that he had only developed what 

 my father had created. ... If my father," continues Miss Baird 

 "had had no other title to the gratitude of the scientific world, 

 it would have cause to remember him with gratitude for having 

 afforded the facilities for the development of Mr. Goode's genius, 

 though that, in time would have made itself known without aid." 



In 1887 he became Assistant Secretary of the Smithsonian 

 Institution, in charge of the National Museum. On the death of 

 Professor Baird, he became for a time United States Fish Com- 

 missioner, holding the office without pay until a change in the law 

 permitted the appointment of a separate salaried head. In his 

 later years Mr. Goode devoted his whole energies to museum 

 administration, a kind of work for which no one in the world has 

 ever shown greater aptitude. Two important publications, 

 Museums of the Future and Principles of Museum Administration, 

 admirably embody his views and experiences in this regard. His 

 appreciation of the importance of such work is characteristically 

 shown in his dedication of an interesting genus of deep-sea fishes 

 to "Ulysses Aldrovandi, of Bologna, the founder of the first natu- 

 ral history museum." 



