NOVEMBEE 6, 1896.] 



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ies of the United States/* a volume of 351 

 pages. These catalogues were for the ten- 

 tative and adopted arrangement of material 

 exhibited by the Smithsonian Institution 

 and the United States Fish Commission at 

 the ' International Exhibition, 1876.' 



It was the ability that was manifested in 

 these catalogues and the work incidental 

 to their preparation that especially arrested 

 the attention of Prof. Baird and marked 

 the author as one well adapted for the 

 direction of a great museum. For signal 

 success in such direction special qualifica- 

 tions are requisite. Only some of them 

 are a mind well trained in analytical as 

 well as synthetic methods, an artistic sense, 

 critical ability, and multifarious knowledge, 

 but above all the knowledge of men and 

 how to deal with them. Perhaps no one 

 has ever combined, in more harmonious 

 proportions, such qualifications than G. 

 Brown Goode. In him the National Mu- 

 seum of the United States and the world 

 at large have lost one of the greatest of mu- 

 seum administrators. 



As a naturalist, the attention of Dr. 

 Goode was especially directed to and even 

 concentrated on the fishes. His memoirs, 

 contributed mostly to the Proceedings of 

 the United States National Museum, were 

 numerous and chiefly descriptive of new 

 species. (For many of these he had, as a 

 collaborator. Dr. Tarleton Bean, then the 

 curator of fishes of the United States Na- 

 tional Museum.) Some of the memoirs, 

 however, dealt with special groups, as the 

 Menhaden (1879), Ostraciontidae (1880), 

 Carangidae (1881), the Sword-fishes (1881), 



* International Exhibition, 1876. Catalogue of 

 tlie Collection to illustrate the Animal Eesources and 

 the Fisheries of the United States, exhibited at 

 Philadelphia in 1876 by the Smithsonian Institution 

 and the United States Fish Commission, and forming 

 a part of the United States National Museum. . . 

 Washington: Government Printing OflSce. 1879. [8° 

 pp. .351. (1) — Bulletin United States National Museum, 

 No. U.] 



and the Eel (1882) . His monograph of the 

 Menhaden (Brevoortia tyranmts), contributed 

 originally to the Eeport of the United States 

 Commissioner of Fisheries* and then pub- 

 lished as a separate workf — a large volume 

 of nearly 550 pages and with 30 plates — ^is a 

 model of critical treatment of information 

 collected from all quarters. But his most 

 important contributions were published as 

 official Government reports and were the 

 results of investigations especially under- 

 taken for such reports. Especially note- 

 worthy were the volumes comprising the 

 results of the census of 1880. 



The 1880 census was planned and carried 

 out on an unusual scale. For the Fisheries, 

 the U. S. Commission of Fish and Fisheries 

 cooperated and Dr. Goode had general 

 charge of the entire work. The assistants 

 and special agents were consequently se- 

 lected with judgment and the results were 

 very valuable. The huge mass of statistics 

 was digested and condensed in seven large 

 quarto volumes representing five sections 

 separately devoted to special branches of the 

 subject.^ Dr. Goode's cares were mainly 



*The Natural and Economical History of the 

 American Menhaden. In Eeport United States Com- 

 mission of Fish and Fisheries, Part v., 1879, Ap- 

 pendix A, pp. 1-529, PL i-xxxi (xxx cancelled. — Pp- 

 194-267 by Prof. W. O. Atwater. 



t American Fisheries — A history of the Men- 

 haden by G. Brown Goode, with an account of the 

 Agricultural Uses of Fish by W. O. Atwater. . . And 

 an introduction, bringing the subject down to 

 date. Thirty plates. — New York: Orange Judd 

 Company. 1880. [8° pp. x, (i), iii-xii, 1-529(1); 

 31 pL— pi. 30 "cancelled."] 



An edition, with a special introduction of the 

 foregoing. 



fThe Fisheries and Fishery Industry of the 

 United States. Prepared through the cooperation of 

 the Commissioner of Fisheries and the Superinten- 

 dent of the Tenth Census. By George Brown Goode, 

 assistant director of the United States National 

 Museum, and a staff of associates. — Washington : Gov- 

 ernment Printing Office. 1884 [ — 1887. 5 sections in 

 7 volumes.] "Section I, Natural History of Aquatic 

 Animals" was mainly prepared by Doctor Goode. 



