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concentrated on the first section, treating 

 of the ' Natural History of Aquatic Ani- 

 mals,' which was discussed in over 900 

 pages of text and illustrated by 277 plates. 

 This work was by far the most complete 

 survey of the economical fishes of the coun- 

 try that had ever appeared and has since 

 been the most prized ; it led to another. 



After the appearance of the Census vol- 

 umes. Dr. Goode was urged to prepare a 

 work for popular use. His consent to do 

 so was followed by a volume, entitled 

 ' American Fishes, a popular treatise upon 

 the game and food fishes of North Amer- 

 ica,'* published by the Standard Book Com- 

 pany of New York. Inasmuch as none of 

 the previous popular works on the Amer- 

 ican fishes had emanated from men of 

 scientific eminence, it scarcely need be 

 added that the new work had no rival in 

 the field, so far as accurate information and 

 details of habits were involved. 



A short time previously Dr. Goode had 

 also prepared the text to accompany a series 

 of twenty large folio colored portraits by 

 an eminent artist — Mr. S. A. Kilbourne — of 

 the principal ' Game Fishes of the United 

 States.'t 



Never had investigations of the deep sea 

 been conducted with such assiduity and 

 skill as during the last two decades. The 

 chief honors of the explorations were car- 

 ried off by the British and American Gov- 

 ernments. As the fishes obtained by the 

 vessels of the United States Fish Commis- 

 sion were brought in, they were examined 

 * American Fishes. A popular treatise upon the 

 Game and Food Fishes of North America, with espec- 

 ial reference to habits and methods of capture. By G. 

 Brown Goode. With numerous illustrations. New 

 York ; Standard Book Company. 1888. [8°, xvi+ 

 496 pp., col. frontispiece.] 



t Game Fishes of the United States. By S. A. 

 Kilbourne. Text by G. Brown Goode. — New York: 

 Published by Charles Scribner's Sons. 1879-1881. 

 [Folio, 46 pp., 20 plates and map. — Published in ten 

 parts, each with 2 plates, lithographs in water color, 

 and four page folio of text.] 



by Dr. Goode (generally in company with 

 Dr. Bean) and duly described. At length 

 Doctors Goode and Bean combined together 

 data respecting all the known forms occur- 

 ring in the abyssmal depths of the ocean 

 and also those of the open sea, and published 

 a resum^ of the entire subject in two large 

 volumes entitled ^Oceanic Ichthyology.'* 

 This was a fitting crown to the work on 

 which they had been engaged so long and 

 the actual publication only preceded Dr. 

 Goode's death by about a fortnight. 



But the published volumes did not repre- 

 sent all the work of Dr. Goode on the 

 abyssalian fishes. He had almost com- 

 pleted an elaborate memoir on the distri- 

 bution of those fishes and, contrary to the 

 conclusions of former laborers in the same 

 field, had recognized for them a number of 

 different faunal areas. It is to be hoped 

 that this may yet be given to the world. 



Morphological and descriptive ichthy- 

 ology were not cultivated to the exclusion 

 of what is regarded as more practical fea- 

 tures. In connection with his official duties 

 as an of&cer of the United States Fish Com- 

 mission he studied the subject of pisciculture 

 in all its details. Among his many contri- 

 butions to the subject are one on ' The First 

 decade of the United States Commission, its 

 plan of work and accomplished results, sci- 

 entific and economical' (1880), another 

 treating of the ' Epochs in the History of Fish 

 Culture ' (1881) and two encyclopaedic arti- 

 cles— 'The Fisheries of the World ' (1882), 

 and the one entitled ' Pisciculture,' in the 

 Encyclopaedia Britannica (1885). 



* Smithsonian Institution. United States Na- 

 tional Museum. Special Bulletin. Oceanic Ichthy- 

 ology. 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, with an Atlas containing 

 417 figures, by George Brown Goode, Ph.D., LL.D., 

 and Tarleton H. Bean, M.D., M.S. Washington: 

 Government Printing Office. 1895. 2 vols., 4° ; I., 

 xxxv+26* 553 pp.; II., xxiii+26* pp., 123 pi. 



