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the title of Virginia Cousins. This has been regarded as a model 

 genealogical monograph. Doctor Goode believed that the way 

 to do any piece of work is to do it thoroughly. While errors are 

 inseparable from all work in science, and no man can ever find 

 out the whole truth about anything yet whatever we really know 

 can be thrown into workmanlike shape. Nothing crude or inco- 

 herent in form at least, ever left Goode's pen. 



Goode was one of the founders of the American Historical 

 Association, and a member of its executive council from 1889 

 till his death. He contributed to its Proceedings, in 1889, his 

 valuable paper on the "Origin of the National Scientific and 

 Educational Institutions of the United States." He was also a 

 member of the Southern Historical Society, organized in 1896. 

 Much of his leisure during his last two summers was given to the 

 preparation of the material that is used in the volume entitled 

 The Smithsonian Institution, 1846-96, which was his project, and 

 is a monument to his knowledge of science in this country during 

 the first half century of the existence of the Smithsonian Institution. 



Goode was one of the founders of the Society of the Sons of 

 the American Revolution in the District of Columbia, and after 

 filling various offices was, in 1894, made President. He was also 

 Vice-President of the Society of the Sons of the Revolution, and 

 Lieutenant-Governor of the Society of Colonial Wars in the Dis- 

 trict of Columbia. 



He was very prominent in the organization and conduct of 

 scientific societies, which he regarded as valuable agencies in the 

 spread of scientific knowledge. He had been President both of 

 the Philosophical Society and the Biological Society of Washing- 

 ton. He was elected to the American Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science in 1873, and to the National Academy of Sciences 

 in 1888. He was also a member of the Zoological Society of 

 London. His work in science was recognized in 1886 by the de- 

 gree of Ph.D. from the University of Indiana, his native state. 

 It was the fortune of the present writer to accept as a thesis from 

 him the "Catalogue of the Fishes of the Bermudas," and to move 

 the granting of this degree. His relation to general culture and 



