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a beautiful hand, and on one occasion he told me that it was just 

 as much the duty of a scientific investigator to write a good hand 

 and spell his names correctly, so that there would be no mistake 

 in the label, as it was for him to make his investigations accurately. 

 You will find if you will look over some of the specimens which he 

 marked at that time, beautiful numerals, clear and distinct, so that 

 there is no mistaking one from the other. 



"Again, I discovered the pedagogic feeling to be very strong in 

 him, and the interests of the public no less than of the investigator 

 were constantly before his mind. Indeed, there was nothing 

 about Doctor Goode in his admirable management of the Museum 

 in later years that did not make its appearance to some extent 

 when he had the work to do with his own hands. The germ of 

 our present discipline manifested itself in the discipline which he 

 exerted over his own conduct when he was junior assistant instead 

 of director. 



"About the time that Doctor Goode came to the Museum, I 

 undertook to arrange the ethnological collections. I can remember 

 the delight which it gave him to consider a classification in which 

 the activities of mankind were divided into genera and species 

 subject to the laws of natural history, of evolution, and geographic 

 surroundings. The development of the Department of Arts and 

 Industries has been the result of these early studies." 



Doctor Goode had a wonderful power of analyzing the relations 

 or contents of any group of activities, or of any objects of study. 

 This showed itself notably in his two catalogues of collections 

 illustrating the animal resources of the United States. These cat- 

 alogues were written with reference to the arrangement of material 

 for the exhibits of the Smithsonian Institution and the United 

 States Fish Commission at the Centennial Exhibition at Phila- 

 delphia. 



Doctor Gill says, in his admirable biographical sketch: 



"It was the ability that was manifested in these catalogues and 

 the work incidental to their preparation that especially arrested 

 the attention of Professor Baird, and marked the author as one 

 well adapted for the direction of a great museum. For signal 

 success in such direction special qualifications are requisite. Only 

 some of them are a mind well trained in analytical as well as syn- 

 thetic methods, an artistic sense, critical ability, and multifarious 

 knowledge, but above all the knowledge of men and how to deal 



