XTI JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS OP THE BOARD OF REGENTS. 



The Secretary said : 



The Regents kuow of the irreparable loss which the lustitution has sustained in the 

 death of Dr. Goode, a man who can not he replaced; a man who was devoted to its 

 service; who, it almost might be said, laid down his life for it, and who possessed a 

 combination of administrative ability and general scientific knowledge with every 

 element of moral trustworthiness for which I do not know where to look again. I 

 have thought that the Regents might like to make, by exception, an acknowledg- 

 ment of this by some resolution, and I will request Dr. White to present those 

 prepared. 



Dr. White then read the following resolutions : 



Whereas the Assistant Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, Dr. G. Brown 

 Goode, died on September 6, 1896, 



Resolved, That the Board of Regents wish to here record their sense of the devo- 

 tion to duty which in the late Dr. Goode came before any considerations of 

 personal advancement, or even before the care of his own health, and of their recog- 

 nition that his high administrative ability and wide knowledge were devoted unsel- 

 fishly to the service of the Institution, with results whose value they can not too 

 highly acknowledge; and they desire to express their feeling of the loss that the 

 Institution, the National Museum, and the cause of science has sustained in his 

 untimely death. 



Besolved, That a copy of these resolutions be suitably engrossed and transmitted 

 to the family of Dr. Goode. 



Dr. White said: 



In being asked to offer these resolutions I wish to say that I accept the duty as 

 one especially grateful to my own feelings. T became acquainted with Dr. Goode 

 about sixteen years ago when he went abroad to Berlin, representing the Smith- 

 sonian Institution at the Fisheries Exposition. 1 think every one who met him then 

 conceived a very high opinion not only of his executive abilities, which he had much 

 occasion to show, but of his personal qualities. I took occasion to bring him into 

 connection with the leading German men of science, and he at once seemed to win 

 not merely their respect but also their most kindly feelings. You are aware that on 

 that occasion the United States exhibition was by far superior to any of their own, 

 and it was then that we received the great prize from the Emperor Wiihelm, which 

 now stands in the Museum under our care. At various times since I have had occa- 

 sion to renew my acquaintance with Dr. Goode, and I have never ceased to hold the 

 good opinion which his admirable qualities aroused in me. 



Mr. Hubbard said: 



Mr. Brown Goode was a very warm personal friend of mine. I personally regret 

 his loss, and I regret it still more on account of the loss to the Museum. I do not 

 suppose that there was any man living who knew better what was necessary for the 

 Museum than he. I do not believe any man ever lived, or ever will live, who will 

 give so much of his time and thought to the work of this Museum as Mr. Brown 

 Goode did, and his death is a blow which the Museum will feel as long as it lasts. 



Senator Morrill said : 



I frequently had occasion to converse with Dr. Goode in relation to the future 

 growth of the Museum. It is, perhajDS, well known to most of you that I have been 

 making an effort for some years now to secure an additional building for the Museum, 

 and in talking over the matter Dr. Goode was very earnest in his purpose to fill 

 it with something that would be worthy of our country, and he was also strongly of 

 the opinion that there was no country that could afford as many valuable and 

 attractive collections for Museum purposes as the United States, and, with the 

 Smithsonian, was capable of doing so in a more economical manner than perhaps 

 any other country in the world. 



