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DEATH OF G. BROWN GOODE 
by the Association to an excursion to and abont the cataract ; and the 
tliree ensning days were spent bj^ a group of working geologists in detailed 
examination and snrvej's in the vicinity under Mr Gilbert’s guidance. 
The second special feature was a celebration of the sixtieth anniversary 
of Pi’ofessor James Hall’s service as State Geologist of New York. Vice- 
President Emerson opened the session devoted to the occasion with an 
ai)propriate address on the part of the Association ; Professor Le Conte 
followed, speaking on behalf of the Geological Society of America ; McGee 
presented a foi’inal address on “James Hall, Founder of American Strati- 
graphic Geology,” and Professor John M. Clarke read an appreciative 
memoir entitled “ Professor Hall and the Survey of the Fourth District.” 
Stevenson, Hovey, Fairchild, and others spoke informally on the more 
personal side of Hall’s connection with the State, while Hon. T. Guilford 
Smith littingly addressed the meeting on behalf of the State, and espe- 
cially of the Regents of the University of New York. The venerable 
geologist terminated a much-needed vacation and crossed the continent 
to attend the meeting arranged in his honor ; and two days later he was 
in the field, with hammer and collecting-bag, guiding explorations for 
rock gas and oil in western New York. 
DEATH OF G. BROWN GOODE 
On September 0, Dr George Brown Goode, Assistant Secretary of the 
Smithsonian Institution and Director of the United States National Mu- 
seum, an active member of the National Geographic Society, and author 
of an article in the August number of this IMagazine, died of bronchial 
pneumonia at Lanier Heights, Washington, D. C. Dr Goode was one of 
the foremost biologists of his generation, his work in ichthyology being 
specially important, and he was the leading museum maker of the coun- 
try, if not of the world. With the support of Baird at the outset and of 
Langley later, he was practically the creator of the National Museum. 
He contributed much, also, to the organization and success of the United 
States Fish Commission, of which he was for a time Superintendent. In 
addition to his strictly scientific and administrative work, he was a lead- 
ing member of several jiatriotic and historical societies and did more 
ju-obably tluin any other man of his generation toward elevating the 
aims of the.se societies and introducing scientific methods in their work. 
Altliough cpiiet and unobtrusive, he was possessed of exceeding energy 
and endurance, as his splendid accomplishments testify; at the same 
time his simplicity of manner and sweetness of disposition were such as 
to harmonize every circle into which he entered. As a leader and har- 
monizer he was perhaps the most influential man in the great scientific 
colony in the National Capital, and in every connection he served most 
successfully as a medium between specialists and the imblic. His un- 
timelj" death, in his forty -sixth year, is a serious blow to the Smithsonian 
Institution and a heavy loss to American science — indeed, in view of his 
many connections with i)ublic interests, it may well be regarded as a 
national calamity. \V’ J M. 
