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Althougli Dr. Goode's zoological publi- 

 cations were principally ichthyological, it 

 was not because of narrowed sympathies or 

 knowledge. As a naturalist he had ac- 

 quaintance with several classes of the ani- 

 mal kingdom and especially with the verte- 

 brates. He even published several minor 

 contributions on herpetology, the voices 

 of crustaceans, and other subjects. 



Anthropology naturally secured a due 

 proportion of his regards and, indeed, his 

 catalogues truly embraced the outlines of a 

 system of the science. As a worker in that 

 field he has been considered recently by 

 Dr. Mason in The American Anthropologist, 

 IX., 353, 354. 



The flowering plants also enlisted much 

 of his attention and his excursions into the 

 fields and woods were enlivened by a knowl- 

 edge of the objects he met with. 



Dr. Goode's bent of mind was to the his- 

 torical investigation of a subject and his- 

 torical matters enlisted much of his atten- 

 tion. Two addresses on the progress of the 

 biological sciences in the United States, 

 given by him as the retiring president of 

 the Biological Society of Washington, well 

 exemplified his diligence in the collection 

 of data and his skill in presenting them, and 

 it is to be hoped that they may be repub- 

 lished in a more available form. 



These addresses entitled ' The beginnings 

 of Natural History in America ' were de- 

 livered in 1886 and 1887 and were pub- 

 lished in the third and fourth volumes of 

 the Proceedings of the Biological Society of 

 Washington. The pages of the old chroni- 

 clers of American affairs, scarcely ever con- 

 sulted by naturalists, had been ransacked 

 and the items of interest culled for these 

 choice addresses. 



The addresses were subsequently supple- 

 mented by an essay on ' The Origin of the Na- 

 tional Scientific and Educational Institu- 

 tions of the United States ' (1890), contrib- 

 uted to, the American Historical Association. 



Bibliography was also a favorite subject 

 with Dr. Goode and he derived much plea- 

 sure from the inquiries which that word in- 

 dicates. He completed exhaustive enumer- 

 ations of the works of two of the most 

 prominent writers on American vertebrates, 

 and these were published by the Smithso- 

 nian Institution as Bulletins of the United 

 States National Museum and as numbers 

 of a series of ' Bibliographies of American 

 Naturalists.' The first was devoted to 

 Spencer FuUerton Baird (1883), and the 

 fifth to Charles Girard (1891), frequently 

 colaborers in olden times. Another (not 

 yet published, but entirely printed) records 

 the numerous memoirs of Philip Lutley 

 Sclater, the distinguished ornithologist of 

 England, who survives his biographer. 



A gigantic work in the same line had 

 been projected by him and most of the ma- 

 terials collected ; it was no less than a com- 

 plete bibliography of Ichthyology, inclu- 

 ding the names of all genera and species 

 published as new. Whether this can be 

 completed by another hand remains to be 

 seen. While the work is a great desidera- 

 tion, very few would be willing to under- 

 take it or even arrange the material already 

 collected for publication. In no way may 

 Ichthyology, at least, more feel the loss of 

 Goode than in the loss of the complete bibli- 

 ography. 



The same inclination that led to histori- 

 cal investigation conducted him further into 

 genealogy. As a result of some of his 

 studies in that line, a large volume on the 

 genealogy of the Goode family appeared in 

 1892 as a private publication with the title 

 < Virginia Cousins*.' It was printed for 



* Virginia Cousins. A study of the Ancestry and 

 Posterity of John Goode, of Whitby, a Virginia colonist 

 of the seventeenth century, with notes upon related 

 families, a key to Southern Genealogy, and a history 

 of the English surname, Gode, Goad, Goode or Good, 

 from 1148 to 1887.— Eichmond, Virginia: J. W. Kan- 

 dolph & English. 1887. [4to, xxxvi+526 pp., 54 

 plates.] 



