5o6 The Smithsonian Institution 



Doctor Goode was one of the founders of the Society of 

 the Sons of the American Revokition in the District of Co- 

 lumbia, and a-fter filHng 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 District 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 Presi- 

 dent both of the Philosophical Society and the Biological 

 Society of Washington. He was elected to the American As- 

 sociation for the Advancement of Science in 1873, ^"*^ 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 degree of Ph.D. from 

 the University of Indiana, his native State. It was the for- 

 tune 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 

 executive work was recognized by Wesleyan University by 

 the degree of LL. D. conferred in 1888. 



The writer first met Doctor Goode in 1874, while he was 

 engaged in work for the United States Fish Commission in 

 Noank, Connecticut. He was then a young man of schol- 

 arly appearance, winning manners, and a very enthusiastic 

 student of fishes. In body he was of medium height, rather 

 slender, and very active. His countenance was intellectual, 

 and he seemed always to have a very definite idea of what 

 he wished to do. 



Our first meeting was in connection with an effort on his 

 part to find the difference between the two genera of fishes 

 called Ceratacanthus and Alutera. At this time I was 

 greatly impressed with the accuracy and neatness of his 



