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M. Henry de Vai-igny, of Paris, writes 

 to Secretai-y Langley : "I have received 

 the card which notifies me of the sad news 

 of the death of that excellent and most dis- 

 tinguished man, G. Brown Goode. I was 

 already acquainted with the fact, and had 

 published a few lines of obituary notice in 

 the Revue Scientifique, but I have not ade- 

 quately expressed the feeling of true sorrow 

 I experience when I remember that he is no 

 more, and that his untiring activity and 

 energetic kindness have ceased to be. He 

 was very kind and obliging to me, and I 

 shall keep a warm remembrance of him. 

 Your loss is a great one." 



William Wirt Henry, descendant of Pat- 

 rick Henry, wrote to Mr. Hubbard : " It is 

 a source of great satisfaction to me that I 

 knew Dr. Goode personally and was privil- 

 edged to be united with him in his work 

 for the patriotic and historical societies with 

 which he was connected. No one could 

 know him without being impressed with his 

 learning and modesty and with the sterling 

 qualities of the man. I feel that his death 

 is a loss which will be felt in every path in 

 which he walked, and will be mourned by 

 every votary of science." 



The Hon. John Boyd Thatcher, Mayor of 

 Albany, IST. Y., wrote to Mr. Hubbard : "My 

 personal knowledge of Professor Brown 

 Goode began in 1890, when he gave his ad- 

 vice and counsel to the World's Columbian 

 Commission in classifying the various ob- 

 jects into proper departments for exhibition, 

 and more particularly in advising and estab- 

 lishing an adequate method of passing 

 judgment upon the exhibits. In these mat- 

 ters I can testif3^ to his ability and consum- 

 mate skill. It was purely voluntary service 

 he rendered, and I at once formed, and 

 have still maintained, a profound sense of his 

 goodness to those who were officially charged 

 with work for which he knew we were most 

 imperfectly equipped and to whom he gave 

 not only suggestions, but detailed and elab- 



oi-ate and finished plans. It is the glory of 

 the modern scientist and scholar that he 

 subordinates himself to the accomplishment 

 of public work. Our friend never asked to 

 be identified pei-sonally with the accom- 

 plished thing. It was enough for him to 

 know that some good was done and not 

 that the world should know that it was 

 done by him. The utter absence of selfish- 

 ness in any life is worthy of recording in 

 brass or in marble or in formulated words." 



Doctor Mobius, of Berlin, writes January 

 26, 1897 : " The unexpected death of Mr. 

 George Brown Goode has deeply affected 

 me. We were in agreeable communication 

 to the advantage of our Museums. We 

 have lost in him a distinguished promoter 

 of our scientific efforts." 



Dr. Richard Schone, Director-General of 

 the Royal Museums at Berlin, expresses 

 ' his sincere regret at the death of this 

 worthy scholar ' and extends his sympathy. 



Prof. Pavesi, Director of the Zoological 

 Museum of the University of Pavia, offers 

 his condolence. A similar message was 

 received for the Museum Francisco-Caro- 

 linum in Linz. 



Dr. Leon Vaillant, professor of the Mu- 

 seum of Natural History at Paris, says that 

 " the ichthyological world has experienced a 

 great loss." 



Dr. H. von Ihering of San Paulo, Brasil, 

 speaks of the loss the National Museum suf- 

 fered both in administrative and scientific 

 interests. 



Dr. Duges, of Guanajuato, Mexico, ex- 

 presses his profound regrets. 



General O. B. Wilcox, U. S. A., repre- 

 senting the Sons of the American Revolu- 

 tion of the District of Columbia, then offered 

 the following resolutions which were sec- 

 onded by Rear-Admiral J. A. Greer, U. S. 

 N., representing the Sons of the Revolution, 

 and adopted by a rising vote : 



We, the associates and friends of the late George 

 Brown Goode, in the Scientific, Patriotic and Histor- 



