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His interest in museum administration caused a large amount 

 of "exposition work" to be intrusted to his hands. An exposition 

 is a temporary museum with a distinctly educational purpose. 

 It can be made a mere public fair on a large scale, or it can be 

 made a source of public education. In Goode's hands an ex- 

 hibition of material was always made to teach some lesson. He 

 had charge, under Professor Baird, of the Smithsonian exhibits 

 in the Centennial Exhibition of 1876, in Philadelphia. He served 

 as United States Commissioner in the Fisheries Exhibition held 

 in Berlin in 1880, and in London in 1883. He was a member of 

 the Board of Management of the government exhibit in the 

 World's Columbian Exposition of 1893, and also prepared the 

 general plan of classification adopted for the Exposition. He was 

 equally active in minor expositions held in New Orleans, Cincin- 

 nati, Louisville, Atlanta, and elsewhere. He was also concerned 

 in the Columbian Historical Exposition held in Madrid 1892-93, 

 and for part of the time acted as Commissioner- General for the 

 United States. His services in that connection were recognized 

 by the conferment of the order of Isabella the Catholic, with the 

 rank of Commander. From the Fisheries Exposition in London 

 he received a medal in honor of his services to the science of ich- 

 thyology. 



Goode was always deeply interested in the historical and bi- 

 ographical side of science, and in the personality, the hopes, and 

 the sorrows of those who preceded him in the study of fishes 

 and other animals. This showed itself in sympathetic sketches of 

 those who had to do with the beginnings of American science as 

 well as with the dedication of new genera, to those who had done 

 hcnor to themselves by honest work in times when good work was 

 not easy, and was not valued by the world. Among these thus 

 recognized by him was Thomas Harriott, of Roanoke (an asso- 

 ciate of Raleigh), who published the first work in English on 

 American natural history. 



His interest in the biographical side of science led him to the 

 scientific side of biography. From boyhood he was interested in 

 genealogy. His own family records were published by him under 



