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mainecl to die at his post." "He was a 

 friend wliom I loved and whom I miss from 

 my daily life." 



Dr. S. P. Langlej', Secretary of the 

 Smithsonian Institution, then delivered an 

 address in which he spoke of Dr. Groode's 

 moral qualities, his success as an adminis- 

 trator, his love of nature and of men, his 

 fine literary and aesthetic instincts. The 

 address is given in full in this number of 

 Science. 



He was followed by Postmaster-General 

 "Wm. L. "Wilson, the subject of whose ad- 

 dress was ' Goode as a Historian and Citi- 

 zen.' In the course of his remarks Mr. 

 Wilson said : 



" It has been most appropriately assigned 

 to those who were privileged to see more of 

 Doctor Goode than myself, in his domestic 

 life and in daily ofi&cial intercourse, to 

 speak of his virtues and his most charming 

 and lofty traits as a man ; and to speak of 

 him in his chosen field of science, must be 

 assigned to those who do not, like myself, 

 stand outside of the pale of scientific at- 

 tainment. The somewhat humbler part is 

 mine, to speak of Doctor Goode in those re- 

 lations in life in which he was probably less 

 known and less thought of than as a man of 

 science, or in other fields of his distin- 

 guished attainment. 



" Doctor Goode was honored in his own 

 country, and in other countries, as an emi- 

 nent man of science, and deservedly so 

 honored ; and his lasting fame must rest 

 upon his solid and substantial contributions 

 to science and the advancement of human 

 knowledge ; upon his eminent success as an 

 administrator of scientific organizations 

 and in that work which all his life shows to 

 have been most congenial to him — the 

 bringing of science down to the interest and 

 instruction of the common people. 



" He was a richly endowed man : first, 

 with that capacity and that resistless bent 

 toward the work in which he attained his 



his great distinction, that made it a peren- 

 nial delight to him ; but he was scarcelj'' 

 less richly endowed in his more unpretend- 

 ing and large human sympathies, and it was 

 this latter endowment that distinguished 

 him as a citizen and as a historian. 



"As a citizen he was full of patriotic, 

 American enthusiasm. He understood, as 

 all must understand who look with serious- 

 ness upon the great problems that confront 

 a free people and who measure the difficul- 

 ties of those problems — he understood that 

 at least one preparation for the discharge of 

 the duties of American citizenship was the 

 general education of the people ; and so he 

 advocated, as far as possible, bringing down 

 to the reach of all the people, not only the 

 opportunities, but the attractions and the 

 incitements to intellectual living. 



" Doctor Goode, with the quick and warm 

 sympathies of the man and of the historian, 

 seems to have felt that he could do no 

 greater service to the people of his day and 

 generation and to his country, than in the 

 most attractive and concrete way, if I may 

 so express it, to lead the young men of this 

 country to a study of the history of the 

 past — to the deeds and the writings of the 

 great men to whom we owe the foundation 

 and the perpetuation of our institutions. 



" Perhaps no family in this country has 

 had so perfect a book, so complete a study 

 of all its branches as Doctor Goode gave to 

 the family whose name he bore, in that 

 book entitled ' Virginia Cousins.' And it 

 is especially gratifjdng to me to know that 

 Virginia history, so much neglected, was 

 pei'haps the favorite field of Doctor Goode's 

 study and investigation. He was a student 

 of the writings of Washington and gath- 

 ered all the materials he could find about 

 that great Virginian. He was a student of 

 the writings of Jefferson ; he was a student 

 of the lives of other distinguished men of 

 that old Commonwealth, and I am told that 

 he had in contemplation the publication of 



