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like, and in his knowledge of everything 

 thus remotely connected with his ichthyo- 

 logic researches, from Saint Anthony's 

 Sermon to Fishes, to the Literature of 

 Fish Cookery, while in one of his earliest 

 papers, written at nineteen, his fondness 

 for Isaac Walton, and his familiarity with 

 him are evident. He had a love for every- 

 thing to do with books, such as specimens 

 of printing and binding, and for etchings 

 and engravings, and he was an omniverous 

 reader, but he read to collect, and oftenest 

 in connection with the enjoyment of his 

 outdoor life and all natural things. One of 

 these unpublished collections, ' The Music 

 of Nature,' contains literally thousands of 

 illustrated poems or passages from his 

 favorite poets. 



These were his recreations, and among 

 these little excursions into literature, " the 

 most pathetic, and yet in some respects the 

 most consolatory," says his literary execu- 

 tor, " seems to have been suggested by an 

 article on the literary advantages of weak 

 health, for with this thought in mind he had 

 collected from various sources accounts of 

 literary work done in feeble health, which 

 he brought together under the title ' Mens 

 Sana inCorpore Jwsano.' " 



Still another collection was of poems re- 

 lating to music, of which he was an enthu- 

 siastic lover. He sang and played well, 

 but this I only learned after his death, for 

 it M^as characteristic of his utter absence of 

 display that during our nine years' inti- 

 macy he never let me know that he had 

 such accomplishments, though that he had 

 a large acquaintance with musical instru- 

 ments I was, of course, aware from the col- 

 lections he had made. 



"We must think of him with added sym- 

 pathy when we know that he lost the robust 

 health he once enjoyed, at that early time 

 during his first connection with the Mu- 

 seum, when he gave himself with such un- 

 calculating devotion to his work as to over- 



task every energy and permanently impair 

 his strength. It was only imperfectly re- 

 stored when his excessive labors in connec- 

 tion with the Philadelphia Exposition 

 brought on another attack, and this condi- 

 tion was renewed at times through my ac- 

 quaintance with him. When we see what 

 he has done we must remember, with now 

 useless regret, under what conditions all 

 this was accomplished. 



I have scarcely alluded to his family life, 

 for of his home we are not to speak here, 

 further than to say that he was eminently 

 a domestic man, finding the highest joys that 

 life brought him with his family and chil- 

 dren. Of those who hear me to-night most 

 knew him personally, and will bear me wit- 

 ness, from his daily life, that he was a man 

 one felt to be pure in heart as he was clean 

 of speech, always sociable, always consid- 

 erate of his associates, a most suggestive 

 and helpful man ; an eminently unselfish 

 man — may I not now say that he was what 

 we then did not recognize, in his simplicity, 

 a great man ? 



" It is a proof," says one who knew him, 

 "of the unconsciousness and unobtrusiveness 

 which characterized Doctor Goode in all his 

 associations and efforts that, until his death 

 came, few, if any, even of his intimate 

 friends, realized the degree to which he had 

 become necessary to them. All acknowl- 

 edged his ability, relied on his sincerity, 

 knew how loyally he served every cause he 

 undertook. The news of his death showed 

 them for the first time what an element of 

 strength he was in the work and ambitions 

 of each of them ; with a sudden shock they 

 saw that their futures would have less of 

 opportunity, less of enthusiasm and mean- 

 ing, now that he was gone." 



He has gone ; and on the road where we 

 are all going there has not preceded us a 

 man who lived more for others, a truer 

 man, a more loyal friend. 



S. P. Langley. 



