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new species and fifty-five new genera belonging to the abyssal 

 fauna of the Atlantic. 



But Doctor Goode's interest and sympathy were not con- 

 fined to the branch of science in which he was a master. 

 He had a broad acquaintance with general natural history, 

 with crustaceans, reptiles, birds, and mammals. On all these 

 groups he published occasional notes. Doctor Gill tells us 

 that " the flowering plants also enlisted much of his atten- 

 tion, and his excursions into the fields and woods were enliv- 

 ened by a knowledge of the objects he met with." "An- 

 thropology," Doctor Gill continues, " naturally secured a due 

 proportion of his regards, and, indeed, his catalogues truly 

 embraced the outlines of a system of the science." 



Doctor Goode was, as already stated, always very greatly 

 interested in bibliography. No work to him was ever tedi- 

 ous, if it were possible to make it accurate. He had well 

 under way the catalogues of the writings of many American 

 naturalists, among others those of Doctor Gill and the pres- 

 ent writer. Two of these are already published under the 

 Smithsonian Institution as Bulletins of the United States 

 National Museum, being numbers of a series of " Bibliogra- 

 phies of American Naturalists." The first contains the writ- 

 ings of Spencer Fullerton Baird (1883). Another is devoted 

 to Charles Girard (1891), who was an associate of Professor 

 Baird, though for his later years resident in Paris. A bibli- 

 ography of the English ornithologist, Philip Lutley Sclater 

 (1896), has been issued since Doctor Goode's death. 



Doctor Gill tells us that "a gigantic work in the same 

 line had been projected by him and most of the material 

 collected ; it was no less than a complete bibliography of Ich- 

 thyology, including the names of all genera and species pub- 

 lished as new. Whether this can be completed by another 

 hand remains to be seen. While the work is a great desid- 



