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their haunts, it is evident that these treasures were brought forth 

 from a mind well stored with riches of many fields of literature. 



The most important of Doctor's Goode scientific studies had 

 relation to the fishes of the deep sea. In all this work he was asso- 

 ciated with Doctor Bean, and the studies of many years were 

 brought together in the splendid summary of all that is known of 

 the fishes of the ocean depths and the open sea. This forms two 

 large quarto volumes text and atlas published under the name 

 of Oceanic Ichthyology, shortly before Doctor Goode's death. The 

 exploration of the deep sea has been mostly undertaken within 

 the last twenty years. The monumental work of the Challenger, 

 under the direction of the British government, has laid the founda- 

 tion of our knowledge of its fauna. The Travailleur and the 

 Talisman, under French auspices, and the Investigator, under 

 direction of the government of India, have added greatly to our 

 stock of information. The great work of Goode and Bean includes 

 the results of these and of various minor expeditions, while through 

 the collections of the Albatross, the Blake and the Fish Hawk 

 they have made great additions to the knowledge of the subject. 

 Indeed, the work of the Albatross in deep-sea exploration is second 

 in importance only to that of the Challenger. In the work of the 

 exact discrimination of genera and species, this work shows a 

 distinct advance over all other treatises on the abyssal fishes. 

 The fact of the existence of definite though large faunal areas in 

 the deep seas was first recognized by Doctor Goode, and has been 

 carefully worked out in a memoir still unpublished. In Oceanic 

 Ichthyology and the minor papers preceding it, Goode and Bean 

 had made known numerous new forms of deep-sea fishes, naming 

 in the last-mentioned work alone one hundred and fifty-six new 

 species and fifty-five new genera belonging to the abyssal fauna of 

 the Atlantic. 



But Doctor Goode's interest and sympathy were not confined 

 to the branch of science in which he was a master. He had a broad 

 acquaintance with general natural history, with crustaceans, 

 reptiles, birds, and mammals. On all these groups he published 

 occasional notes. Doctor Gill tells us that "the flowering plants 



