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SCIENCE. 



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conferred upon him by Wesleyan Univer- 

 sity and the degree of Ph. D. by Indiana 

 University. 



Incidental mention has been made of 

 some of his larger works, but a complete 

 bibliography of his papers would include 

 hundreds of titles, so indefatigable had 

 he been in the too few years of his busy 

 life. He has gone, but his influence will 

 remain so long as the National Museum 

 shall exist, and his memory will ever be 

 cherished by all who had learned to love 

 and respect him. 



II. 



Dr. Goode's first contribution to science 

 was published in 1871 in his twenty-first 

 year and incorporated in a note of the edi- 

 tors of the American Naturalist (v. 489); it 

 merely recorded the occurrence of ' The bill 

 fish in fresh water ' in the Connecticut river. 



His first memoir giving any indication of 

 his range of reading and ability in the sys- 

 tematization of facts was published two 

 years later (1873) " On the question ' do 

 snakes swallow their young ' "^. Through 

 an advertisement in TJie American Agricul- 

 turist, a weekly journal with a large circula- 

 tion in rural districts, he obtained numer- 

 ous answers to the question and thus was 

 enabled to supplement the records pre- 

 viously published by original accounts. 

 The result of a critical survey of the data 

 at command compelled him to admit that 

 there was a good foundation in fact for the 

 popular belief, and that certain viviparous 

 snakes do really admit their young, who in- 

 stinctively seek refuge in the interior of 

 their mother when danger threatens and 

 are liberated when it has passed. f 



*0n the Question, "Do Snakes swallow their 

 Young?" In Proc. Amer. Assoc. Advan. Sci. 

 1873 (1874), pp. 176-185. Also separately, repaged, 

 12 pp. 



t Mr. H. Tootal Broadhurst has collected a num- 

 ber of original observations in a recently published 



A ^ Catalogue of the Fishes of the Ber- 

 mudas,'* published in 1876, furnished ad- 

 ditional evidence of knowledge of the litera- 

 ture of his subject and ability to use it to 

 advantage in the discussion of mooted ques- 

 tions and it also evinced his power of ob- 

 servation. 



In the same year, 1876, appeared another 

 work which, to a still greater degree, ren- 

 dered manifest those same mental char- 

 acteristics. The work was only a cata- 

 logue, but perhaps from no other publica- 

 tion can some intellectual qualities be so 

 readily and correctly gauged by a com- 

 petent judge as an elaborate catalogue. 

 Powers of analysis and synthesis, and the 

 ability to weigh the relative values of the 

 material at hand, may make a ' mere cata- 

 logue ' a valuable epitome of a collection 

 and of a science. Such a production was 

 the ' Classification of the Collection to il- 

 lustrate the Animal Eesources of the United 

 States,'! a work of 126 pages ; three years 

 later this catalogue served as the basis for 

 and was elaborated and expanded into a 

 large ^ Catalogue of the Collection to illus- 

 trate the Animal Eesources and the Fisher- 

 pamphlet confirming the allegation that mother 

 snakes may receive their young within their mouths. 

 Mr. Broadhurst was apparently unacquainted with 

 Dr. Goode's article; his own is entitled, 'Do the 

 Young of Vipers take Eefuge Down the Throat of the 

 Mother in cases of Sudden Surprise or Danger?' 

 (Dumfries, July, 1895. 8vo, 29 pp.) 



* Catalogue of the Fishes of the Bermudas, 

 Based chiefly on the collectings of the United States 

 National Museum. . . Washington: Government 

 Printing Office. 1876. [8° pp. (2) 1-82.— Bulletin 

 United States National Museum. No. 5.] 



t International Exhibition, 1876. Board in Be- 

 half of United States Executive Departments. Classi- 

 fication of the Collection to illustrate the Animal 

 Eesources of the United States. A list of substances 

 derived from the animal kingdom, with synopsis of 

 the useful and injurious animals and a classification 

 of the methods of capture and utilization. . . Wash- 

 ington: Government Printing Office. 1876. [8° pp. 

 126. — A second edition with supplementary title as 

 Bulletin No. 6, United States National Museum.] 



