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nearly completed a Bibliography of the contributions of the editor of this 
volume. 
A gigantic work in the same line had been projected by him and most 
of the materials collected ; it was no less than a complete bibliography 
of Ichthyology, including 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 desideration, 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 bibliography. 
The same inclination that led to historical 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 
the author in Washington. Its nearly 600 pages and 54 plates involved the 
information collected during a quarter century. Much historical and bio- 
graphical information of general interest is to be found in the monograph, 
and the most approved methods are manifest in the treatment and presen- 
tation of his theme. 
The author’s interest did not cease with the publication of the work; it 
rather increased, and he received so many new contributions and so much 
additional information that he felt obliged to prepare for a second edition. 
The new material had already been intercalated with the corrected old, and 
the second edition was nearly ready for the press when death interposed. 
Dr. 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 affections 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. 
* 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. — Richmond, Virginia: J. W. Randolph 
& English. 1887. [Small 4to, xxxvi-+s526 pp., 54 plates. ] 
