BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF 

 GEORGE BROWN GOODE 



BY DAVID STARR JORDAN, 



President of Leland Stanford Junior University. 



HE untimely death of George Brown Goode 

 has left a great break in the ranks of the sci- 

 entific men of America. One of the most ac- 

 curate and devoted of students, the ablest 

 exponent of museum methods, a man of the 

 most exalted personal character, Doctor Goode occupied a 

 unique position in the development of American science. 

 George Brown Goode was born in New Albany, Indiana, 

 on February 13, 1851, and died of pneumonia at his home on 

 Lanier Heights in Washington City on September 6, 1896. 

 According to Doctor Marcus Benjamin, to whom I am in- 

 debted for many of the details of this sketch : 



" Doctor Goode was of Colonial descent. His family lived 

 in Virginia, and he traced with pride his paternal line to 

 John Goode, who came to that colony prior to 1660, and set- 

 tled four miles from the present site of Richmond, on an 

 estate which he named 'Whitby.' John Goode was one of 

 the advisers of Bacon in 1676, in the first armed uprising of 

 the Americans against the oppression of royal authority. On 



