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true, sincere and loyal character than Doctor Goode's; or a man 

 who with better judgment of other men, or greater ability in 

 moulding their purposes to his own, used these powers to such 

 uniformly disinterested ends, so that he could maintain the disci- 

 pline of a great establishment like the National Museum, while 

 retaining the personal affection of every subordinate." "His 

 disposition," says Doctor Theodore Gill, "was a bright and sunny 

 one, and he ingratiated himself in the affections of his friends in 

 a marked degree. He had a hearty way of meeting intimates, 

 and a caressing cast of the arm over the shoulder of such an one 

 often followed sympathetic intercourse. But in spite of his gentle- 

 ness, firmness and vigor in action became manifest when occasion 

 called for them." 



Of all American naturalists, Doctor Goode was the most method- 

 ical, the most conscientious, and, in his way, the most artistic. 

 And of them all no one was more beloved by his fellows. Neither 

 in his life nor after death was ever an unkind word said of him. 



