March 5, 1897.] 



SGIENGE. 



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ical Societies of the City of Washington, being met 

 together to commemorate his life and service, do 

 recognize: 



That in his death the world has lost a great man of 

 true moral worth, unusual breadth of intellect, pro- ' 

 found human sympathy, unswerving loyality to his 

 duty and devotion to his family and his friends. 



That America has been deprived of a most patriotic, 

 public spirited and loyal citizen; American Science 

 of its first Historian, and American History of an 

 original investigator. 



That Universal Science has lost one of its foremost 

 Ichthyologists and a man broadly learned in the en- 

 tire field of Natural History. 



That the Scientific service of the United States 

 government, the Societies to which he belonged, and 

 all the institutions in America for the promotion of 

 knowledge, have lost in him an ever faithful and 

 willing cooperator. 



Resolved, That this minute be communicated to the 

 societies of which Dr. Goode was a member and a 

 copy be sent to his family, to whom the persons here 

 assembled extend their sincere sympathy. 



It is expected that all of these addresses, 

 together with a narrative of Doctor Goode's 

 life, an account of his contributions to mu- 

 seum administration, a bibliography of his 

 writings, and possibly a chapter on his 

 work in National and International expo- 

 sitions will be fittingly published in a me- 

 morial volume, and it is also likely that a 

 permanent memorial will be established. 



But there is a memory in the hearts 

 of all who knew him which grows more 

 fond as the days pass by, mingled with a 

 sense of grief and loss, not as yet tempered 

 by the months that have elapsed since that 

 sorrowful day in September on which Dr. 

 Goode went to his reward. 



Cyrus Adlee. 



Washington, February 22, 1897. 



GEORGE BROWN GOODE* 

 While I am aware that it is only fitting 

 that I should say something here about one 

 I knew so well as the late Doctor Goode, I 



* Address at the Goode Memorial Meeting held 

 February 13, 1897, by Secretary Langley, of the 

 Smithsonian Institution. 



feel the occasion a trying one, for he was so 

 dear a friend that my very nearness and 

 sense of a special bereavement must be a 

 sufficient excuse for asking your indulgence, 

 since I cannot speak of him even yet with' 

 out pain, and I must say but little. 



Here are some who knew him still longer 

 than I, and many who can estimate him 

 more justly in all his scientific work, and to 

 those who can perform this task so much 

 better, I leave it. I will only try to speak, 

 however briefly, from a personal point of 

 view, and chiefly of those moral qualities 

 in which our friendship grew, and of some 

 things apart from his scientific life which 

 this near friendship showed me. 



As I first remember him it seems to me, 

 looking back in the light of more recent 

 knowledge, that it was these moral quali- 

 ties which I first appreciated, and if there 

 was one which more than another formed 

 the basis of his character it was sincerity — 

 a sincerity which was the ground of a trust 

 and confidence such as could be instinctively 

 given even from the first, only to an abso- 

 lutely loyal and truthful nature. In him 

 duplicity of motive even seemed hardly 

 possible, for, though he was in a good sense 

 worldly wise, he walked by a single inner 

 light, and this made his road clear even 

 when he was going over obscure ways, 

 and made him often a safer guide than 

 such wisdom alone would have done. He 

 was, I repeat, a man whom you first 

 trusted instinctively, but also in whom 

 every added knowledge explained and jus- 

 tified this confidence. 



This sincerity, which pervaded the whole 

 character, was united with an unselfishness 

 so deep-seated that it was not conscious of 

 itself, and was, perhaps, not always recog- 

 nized by others. It is a subject of regret to 

 me, now it is too late, that I seem myself 

 to have thus taken it too much as a matter 

 of course in the past, at times like one I 

 remember, when, as I afterwards learned, 



