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character of its public museums and the liberality 

 with which they are maintained. ' ' 



His popular works include the 'Game 

 Fishes in the United States,' published in 

 1879, a book written in charming literary 

 style, besides innumerable short articles in 

 the Chautauquan, Fored and Stream and 

 Science. In 1888 appeared his ' American 

 Fishes : a popular treatise upon the Game 

 and Food Fishes of North America with spe- 

 cial reference to habits and methods of cap- 

 ture.' These writings give us a further in- 

 sight not only into the two sides of Goode's 

 scientific nature, the theoretical and practi- 

 cal, but into his artistic and poetical senti- 

 ment and into the wide extent of his reading. 

 Besides the long list enumerated above, he 

 published 51 joint ichthyological papers with 

 G. Brown, W. O. Atwater, R. E. Earll, A. 

 Howard Clark, Joseph W. Collins, Newton 

 P. Scudder, but his chief collaborateur was 

 Tarleton H. Bean . Under their names ap- 

 pear 35 papers, but chief of all the ' Oceanic 

 Ichthyology, a Treatise on the Deep-Sea and 

 Pelagic Fishes of the World, based chiefly 

 upon the collections made by the Steamers 

 Blake, Albatross and Fish Hawk in the 

 Northwestern Atlantic' 



In 1877 Goode saw his first deep-sea fish 

 drawn fresh from the bottom and experi- 

 enced a sensation which he thus describes 

 in the preface of his monograph : 



"The studies which have led to the writing of 

 this book were begun in the summer of 1877, when 

 the first deep-sea fishes were caught by American nets 

 on the coast of North America. This took place in 

 the Gulf of Maine, 44 miles east of Cape Ann, on the 

 19th of August, when from the side of the U. S. Fish 

 Commission steamer ' Speedwell ' the trawl net was 

 cast into 160 fathoms of water. The writers were both 

 standing by the mouth of the net when, as the sea- 

 men lifted the end of the bag, two strange forms fell 

 out on the deck. A single glance was enough to tell 

 us that they were new to our fauna, and probably un- 

 known to science. They seemed like visitors from 

 another world, and none of the strange forms which 

 have since passed through our laboratory have brought 

 half as much interest and enthusiasm. Macrurus 



Bairdii and Lycodes VerrHlii are simply new species of 

 well-known deep-dwelling genera, and have since 

 been found to be very abundant on the continental 

 slope, but they were among the first fruits of that 

 great harvest in the field of oceanic ichthyology which 

 we have had the pleasure to garner in the fifteen 

 years which have passed since that happy and event- 

 ful morning. It seems incredible that American 

 naturalists should not then have known that a few 

 miles away there was a fauna as unlike that of our 

 coast as could be found in the Indian Ocean or the 

 seas of China." 



In one of the latest of his 45 contri- 

 butions to the Bulletin of the United States 

 National Museum is the description of the 

 discovery of the new deep-sea Chimseroid, 

 for which, true to his appreciation of the 

 past, he proposed the name Harriotta in 

 memory of Thomas Harriott, the earliest 

 English naturalist in America. 



The quaint, old-fashioned style of some 

 of Goode's essays again gives us an insight 

 into his historic sense and his reversion to 

 the ideas and principles of his Virginia an- 

 cestors. Seldom have we known the loyal, 

 conservative spirit, of reverence for old insti- 

 tutions, fealty to independence of societies, 

 combined with such a grandly progressive 

 spirit in the cooperation of the government 

 with the state, and of one country with an 

 other, in the promotion of science. 



Again, what impresses us most is Goode 

 as the apostle of scientific knowledge, the 

 conviction of his mission in life breathing 

 through his earliest papers in the College 

 Argils to his final appeal in Science for the 

 ' Admission of American students to the 

 French Universities.' 



One of his intimate friends writes : 

 " Sometimes we talked of more far-reach- 

 ing matters and in such discussions I often 

 took a position I had no faith in, hop- 

 ing to draw him out. I remember once we 

 fell to talking of the province of science, 

 and for the sake of argument I took the 

 position that most scientific work was 

 merely a form of intellectual amusement 

 and benefited no one. He became quite 



