Biographical Sketch of George Brown Goode 5 I 3 



The most important of Doctor Goode's scientific studies 

 have relation to the fishes of the deep sea. In all this work 

 he was associated with Doctor Bean, and the studies of many 

 years were brought together in the splendid summary of all 

 that is known of the fishes of the ocean depths and the open 

 sea. This forms two large quarto volumes, text and atlas, 

 published shortly before Doctor Goode's death under the 

 name of "Oceanic Ichthyology." 1 The exploration of the 

 deep sea has been mostly undertaken within the last twenty 

 years. The monumental work of the Challenger, under the 

 direction of the British government, has laid the founda- 

 tion of our knowledge of its fauna. The Travailleur and 

 the Talisman, under French auspices, and the Investi- 

 gator, under direction of the government of India, have 

 added greatly to our stock of information. The great work 

 of Goode and Bean includes the results of these and of 

 various minor expeditions, while through the collections of 

 the Albatross, the Blake and the Fish Hawk they have 

 made great additions to the knowledge of the subject. In- 

 deed, the work of the Albatross in deep-sea exploration 

 is second in importance only to that of the Challenger. 

 In the work of the exact discrimination of genera and species, 

 this work shows a distinct advance over all other treatises 

 on the abyssal fishes. The fact of the existence of definite 

 though large faunal areas in the deep seas was first recog- 

 nized by Doctor Goode, and has been carefully worked out 

 in a memoir still unpublished. In " Oceanic Ichthyology " 

 and the minor papers preceding it, Goode and Bean have 

 made known numerous new forms of deep-sea fishes, naming 

 in the last-mentioned work alone one hundred and fifty-six 



1 " Oceanic Ichthyology. A treatise on Fish Hawk in the Northwestern Atlan- 



the Deep-Sea and Pelagic Fishes of the tic, with an Atlas containing 417 figures." 



World, based chiefly upon the collections 2 volumes, I., 553 pages, II., 123 plates, 



made by the steamers Blake, Albatross, and Washington, 1895. 



