Biographical Sketch of George Brown Goode 5 1 5 



eratum very few would be willing to undertake it or even 

 arrange the matter already collected for publication. In no 

 way may Ichthyology, at least, more feel the loss of Goode 

 than in the loss of the complete bibliography." 



Doctor Goode was married on November 27, 1877, to 

 Sarah Lamson Ford Judd, daughter of Orange Judd, the well- 

 known publisher, and the founder of Orange Judd Hall at 

 Wesleyan University in which Doctor Goode's career as a 

 museum administrator began. The married life of Doctor 

 and Mrs. Goode was a very happy one. The wife and four 

 children are still living. 



As to the personal qualities of Doctor Goode, I cannot do 

 better than to quote the following words of two of his warm- 

 est friends. Doctor S. P. Langley wrote: "I have never 

 known a more perfectly true, sincere and loyal character than 

 Doctor Goode's ; or a man who with a better judgment of 

 other men, or greater ability in moulding their purposes to 

 his own, used these powers to such uniformly disinterested 

 ends, so that he could maintain the discipline of a great 

 establishment like the National Museum, while retaining the 

 personal affection of every subordinate." " His disposition," 

 says Doctor Theodore Gill, " was a bright and sunny one, 

 and he ingratiated himself in the affections of his friends in a 

 marked degree. He had a hearty way of meeting intimates, 

 and a caressing cast of the arm over the shoulder of such an 

 one often followed sympathetic intercourse. But in spite of 

 his gentleness, firmness and vigor in action became manifest 

 when occasion called for them." 



Of all American naturalists Doctor Goode was the most 

 methodical, the most conscientious and the most artistic. 

 And of them all no one was more beloved by his fellows. 

 Neither in his life nor after his death was ever an unkind 

 word said of him. 



