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SCIENCE. 



[N. S. YOL. IV. No. 97. 



the author in Washington. Its nearly 600 

 pages and 54 plates involved the informa- 

 tion collected during a quarter century. 

 Much historical and biographical informa- 

 tion of general interest is to be found in the 

 monograph and the most approved methods 

 are manifest in the treatment and presenta- 

 tion of his theme. 



The author's interest did not cease with 

 the publication of the work ; it rather in- 

 creased, and he received so many new con- 

 tributions and so much additional informa- 

 tion that he felt obliged to prepare for a 

 second edition. The new material had al- 

 ready been intercalated with the corrected 

 old, and the second edition was nearly 

 ready for the press when death interposed. 



Doctor Goode was blessed with a poetical 

 vein and loved to dip into the offerings of 

 poets, old and new. Frequent quotations 

 are to be found in his works and many apt 

 ones are given at the heads of the chapters 

 of the ^ Game fishes of the United States ' 

 and the " American fishes." 



His disposition was a bright and sunny 

 one and he ingratiated himself in the affec- 

 tions of his friends in a marked degree. 

 He had a hearty way of meeting intimates, 

 and a caressing cast of the arm over the 

 shoulder of such an one often followed 

 sympathetic intercourse.* But in spite of 

 his gentleness, firmness and vigor in action 

 became manifest when occasion called for 

 them. A tribute to those qualities from 

 his chief who is better prepared to speak 

 than myself will fittingly supplement this 

 notice. Theo. Gill. 



Smithsonian Institution. 



It has been suggested that I should say 



* Several portraits have been published. The first 

 appeared in Harper'' s Weekly in 1887 and was a fine 

 wood engraving and excellent likeness of him at the 

 time — on the whole (in my opinion) the most satis- 

 factory that has been made. Imprints of the engrav- 

 ing were furnished by the Harpers for the ' Virginia 

 Cousins ' and inserted opposite p. 288. 



something about my dear personal friend 

 and official intimate. Dr. G. Brown Goode, 

 but since Dr. Gill, who is so much better 

 fitted for the task than I, has consented to 

 speak of his scientific career, I prefer to 

 leave that side of Dr. Goode's life-work in 

 such competent hands. 



I do not want the occasion to pass, how- 

 ever, without saying briefly that I have 

 never known. a more perfectly true, sincere 

 and loyal character than Dr. Goode's ; or a 

 man who with a better judgment of other 

 men, or greater ability in moulding their 

 purposes, to his own, used these powers to 

 such uniformly disinterested ends, so that 

 he could maintain the discipline of a great 

 establishment like the National Museum, 

 while retaining the personal affection of 

 every subordinate. He was not only pos- 

 sessed of the exact scientific training which 

 found expression in the ways which Dr. 

 GUI has noted, and as a specialist in mu- 

 seum administration, but was an adept in 

 many other branches of knowledge. His 

 historical powers in grouping incidents and 

 events were akin to genius. His genealogi- 

 cal writings showed wide and accurate re- 

 search, while his literary faculty displayed 

 itself with singular charm in some of his 

 minor writings. 



But how futile these words seem to be in 

 describing a man, of whom perhaps the best, 

 after all, to be said, is that he was not only 

 trusted, but beloved by all with an affec- 

 tion that men rarely win from one another. 



S. P. Langley. 



Smithsonian Institution. 



BRITISH ASSOCIATION FOB THE ADVANCE- 

 MENT OF SCIENCE* 



ADDRESS TO THE ZOOLOGICAL SECTION BY 



THE PRESIDENT OF THE SECTION. 



( Concluded. ) 



We now come to the strictly biological 



part of our subject — to the inquiry as to 



*Liverpool, 1896. , 



