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"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 classi- 

 fication 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 re- 

 lations 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 catalogues 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 Philadelphia. " It was," says Doc- 

 tor Gill, in his admirable biographical sketch,^ "the ability 

 that was manifested in these catalogues and the work inci- 

 dental to their preparation that especially arrested the atten- 



1 "Classification of the Collection to Illus- 

 trate the Animal Resources of the United 

 States. A list of substances derived from 

 the animal kingdom, with synopsis of the 

 useful and injurious animals and a classifica- 

 tion of the methods of capture and util- 

 ization." Washington, 1876. " Bulletin 

 Number 6, United States National Museum." 



" Catalogue of the Collection to Illustrate 



the Animal Resources and the Fisheries of 

 the United States, exhibited at Philadelphia 

 in 1876 by the Smithsonian Institution and 

 the United St.ites Fish Commission, and form- 

 ing a part of the United States National 

 Museum." Washington, 1879. "Bulletin 

 No. 14, United States National Museum." 



'•i Science, New Series, Volume iv, 1896, 

 page 665. 



