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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 begin- 

 nings of American science as well as with the dedication of 

 new genera to those who had done honor to themselves by 

 honest work in times when good work was not easy, and was 

 not valued by the world. Among those thus recognized by 

 him was Thomas Harriott, of Roanoke (an associate of 

 Raleigh), who published the first work in English on Amer- 

 ican natural history. 



His interest in the biographical side of science led him to 

 the scientific side of biography. From boyhood he was in- 

 terested in genealogy. His own family records were pub- 

 lished by him under 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. Nothing crude or incoherent ever left his pen. 



Doctor 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 present volume, which was his project, and 

 which when published will be a monument to his knowledge 

 of science in this country during the first half-century of the 

 existence of the Smithsonian Institution. 



1 "Virginia Cousins. A study of the an- or Good, from 1148 to 1887. By G. Brown 



cestry and posterity of John Goode, of Whit- Goode, with a preface by R. A. Brock, secre- 



by,a Virginia colonist of the Seventeenth Cen- tary of the Virginia and Southern Historical 



tury, with notes upon related families. A Societies." Richmond, Virginia: J. W. Ran- 



key to Southern Genealogy, and a history of dolph & English, MDCCCLX.XXVII. [Quarto, 



the English surname Gode, Goud, Goode, xxxvi + 526 pages, 54 plates.] 



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