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his mother's side he was descended from Jasper Crane, who 

 came to New England before 1630, and afterwards settled 

 near the present site of Newark, New Jersey. Doctor Goode's 

 father was Francis Collier Goode, who married, in 1850, Sarah 

 Woodruff Crane, and their distinguished son was born at the 

 home of his maternal grandfather." 



In 1857 Doctor Goode's parents moved to Amenia, in 

 New York State, where the boy passed his early youth, and 

 where he was prepared for college. In due time young 

 Goode was matriculated in Wesleyan University in Middle- 

 town, Connecticut, where he graduated in 1870, at the too 

 early age of nineteen. 



The fixed curriculum of the college gave him little oppor- 

 tunity for the studies in which he was chiefly interested, and 

 his standing in the conventional branches on which the higher 

 education was then supposed to depend was not unusually 

 high. He was, however, regarded as "a man exceptionally 

 promising for work " in natural history. 



Doctor Goode spent part of the year of 1870 in graduate 

 work in Harvard, and there fell under the stimulating influ- 

 ence of the greatest of teachers of science, Louis Agassiz. 

 Before the year was over he was recalled to Middletown 

 to take charge of the Museum of Natural Science then just 

 erected by Orange Judd. His work in Judd Hall was a 

 prelude to his reorganization of the National Museum in 

 Washington, an institution which will always show in its 

 classification and arrangement the traces of his master hand. 



In 1872 he first met Professor Baird in Eastport, Maine, 

 and in 1873, while at the meeting of the American Association 

 for the Advancement of Science, in Portland, Maine, he re- 

 newed this acquaintance. Professor Baird, with his character- 

 istic insight into the ambitions and possibilities of promising 

 young men, one of his notable qualities, invited Doctor 



