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though I ought to gratefully add that here 

 his knowledge of my reliance upon him and 

 his unselfish desire to aid me were also 

 among his determining motives in remain- 

 ing. They were natural ones in such a 

 man. 



"What were the results of this devotion 

 may be comprehensively seen in the state- 

 ment that in the year in which he was first 

 enrolled among the ofi&cers of the Museum 

 the entries of collections numbered less 

 than two hundred thousand, and the staff, 

 including honorary collaborators and all 

 subordinates, thirteen persons, and by com- 

 paring these early conditions with what 

 they became under his subsequent manage- 

 ment. 



Professor Baird at the first was an active 

 manager, but from the time that he became 

 Secretary of the Institution he devolved 

 more and more of the Museum duties on 

 Dr. Goode, who for nine years preceding his 

 death was in practically entire charge of it. 

 It is strictly within the truth then to say 

 that the changes which have taken place in 

 the Museum in that time are more his 

 work than any other man's, and when we 

 find that the number of persons employed 

 has grown from thirteen to over two hun- 

 dred, and the number of specimens from 

 200,000 to over 3,000,000, and consider that 

 what the Museum now is, its scheme and 

 arrangement, with almost all which make 

 it distinctive, are chiefly Dr. Goode's, we 

 have some of the evidence of his adminis- 

 trative capacity. He was fitted to rule and 

 administer both men and things, and the 

 Museum under his management was, as 

 some one has called it, ' A House full of 

 ideas and a nursery of living thought.' 



Perhaps no one can be a ' naturalist ' in 

 the larger sense, without being directly a 

 lover of Nature and of all natural sights 

 and sounds. One of his family says, " he 

 taught us all the forest trees, their fruits 

 and flowers in season, and to know them 



when bare of leaves by their shapes ; all the 

 wayside shrubs and even the flowers of the 

 weeds, all the wild birds and their notes, 

 and the insects. His ideal of an old age 

 was to have a little place of his own in a 

 mild climate, surrounded by his books 

 for rainy days, and friends who cared for 

 plain living and high thinking, with a 

 chance to help some one poorer than he." 

 He was a loving and quick observer, and in 

 these simple natural joys, his studies were 

 his recreations, and were closely connected 

 with his literary pursuits. 



I have spoken of his varied interests and 

 the singular fulness of his knowledge in 

 fields apart from biologic research. He 

 was a genealogist of professional complete- 

 ness and exactitude, and a historian, and in 

 these capacities alone a biography might 

 be written ; but his well-founded claim to 

 be considered a literary man as well as a 

 man of science, rests as much on the excel- 

 lent English style, clear, direct, unpreten- 

 tious, in which he has treated these subjects, 

 as on his love of 'literature in general. I 

 pass them, however, with this inadequate 

 mention, from my incompetence to deal 

 with him as a genealogist, and because his 

 aspect as a historian will be presented by 

 another; but while I could only partly 

 follow him in his genealogical studies, we 

 had together, among other common tastes, 

 that love of general literature just spoken 

 of, and I, who have been a widely dis- 

 cursive reader, have never met a mind in 

 touch with more far-away and disconnected 

 points than his, nor one of more breadth 

 and variety of reading, outside of the range 

 of its own specialty. This reading was 

 also, however, associated with a love of 

 everything which could illustrate his special 

 science on this literary side. The extent of 

 this illustration is well shown by the wealth 

 and aptness of quotation in the chapter 

 headings of his ' American Fishes,' his 

 ' Game Fishes of North America ' and the 



