BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH. XXV 
a naturalist he had acquaintance with several classes of the animal kingdom 
and especially with the vertebrates. 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 Zhe American Anthropologist (1X., 353) 354)- 
The flowering plants also enlisted much of his attention, and his excur- 
sions into the fields and woods were enlivened by a knowledge of the objects 
he met with. 
Dr. Goode’s bent of mind was to the historical investigation of a subject, 
and historical matters enlisted much of his attention. 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 exem- 
plified his diligence in the collection of data and his skill in presenting 
them, and it is to be hoped that they may be republished in a more 
available form.* 
These addresses entitled “The Beginnings of Natural History in America” 
were delivered in 1886 and 1887, and were published in the third and fourth 
volumes of the Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. The 
pages of the old chroniclers of American affairs, scarcely ever consulted by 
naturalists, had been ransacked and the items of interest culled for these 
choice addresses. 
The addresses were subsequently supplemented by an essay on “The 
Origin of the National Scientific and Educational Institutions of the United 
States” (1890), contributed to the American Historical Association. 
Bibliography was also a favorite subject with Dr. Goode, and he derived 
much pleasure from the inquiries which that word indicates. He completed 
exhaustive enumerations of the works of two of the most prominent writers 
on American vertebrates, and these were published by the Smithsonian 
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 Fullerton Baird (1883), and the fifth to Charles 
Girard (1891), frequently co-laborers in olden times. Another (published 
in 1896) records the numerous memoirs of Philip Lutley Sclater, the distin- 
guished ornithologist of England, who survives his biographer. He had also 
* The Beginnings of Natural History in America and The Beginnings of American Sci a 
lished in A Memorial of George Brown Goode in 1901 (pp. 3 57-466) e eee eps neeae 
