XXIV AMERICAN FISHES. 
A short time previously Dr. Goode had also prepared the text to accom- 
pany a series of twenty large folio colored portraits by an eminent artist — 
Mr. S. A. Kilbourne — of the principal ‘(Game Fishes of the United 
States.” * 
Never had investigations of the deep sea been conducted with such 
assiduity and skill as during the last two decades. The chief honors of 
the explorations were carried off by the British and American governments. 
As the fishes obtained by the vessels of the United States Fish Commission 
were brought in, they were examined by Dr. Goode (generally in company 
with Dr. Bean) and duly described. At length Drs. Goode and Bean 
combined together data respecting all the known forms occurring in the 
abysmal depths of the ocean and also those of the open sea, and published 
a résumé of the entire subject in two large volumes entitled ‘“‘ Oceanic Ichthy- 
ology.” f This was a fitting crown to the work on which they had been 
engaged so long, and the actual publication only preceded Dr. Goode’s 
death by about a fortnight. 
But the published volumes did not represent all the work of Dr. Goode 
on the abyssalian fishes. He had almost completed an elaborate memoir 
on the distribution of those fishes, and, contrary to the conclusions of former 
laborers in the same field, had recognized for them a number of different 
faunal areas. It is to be hoped that this may yet be given to the world 
Morphological and descriptive ichthyology were not cultivated to the 
exclusion of what is regarded as more practical features. In connection 
with his official duties as an officer of the United States Fish Commission 
he studied the subject of pisciculture in all its details. Among his many 
contributions to the subject are one on “ The First Decade of the United 
States Commission, its plan of work and accomplished results, scientific and 
economical ” (1880), another treating of the ‘‘ Epochs in the History of Fish 
Culture” (1881), and two encyclopaedic articles — ‘‘The Fisheries of the 
World ” (1882), and the one entitled “ Pisciculture” in the Encyclopedia 
Britannica (1885). 
Although Dr. Goode’s zodlogical publications were principally ichthy- 
ological, it was not because of narrowed sympathies or knowledge. As 
*Game Fishes of the United States. By S. A. Kilbourne. Text by G. Brown Goode.-— New York: 
published by Charles Scribner's Sons. 1879-1881. [Folio, 46 pp., 20 eae and map. — Published in ten 
parts, each with 2 plates, lithographs in water-color, and four-page folio of text.] 
+ Smithsonian [nstitution. United States National Museum. Special Bulletin. Oceanic Ichthyology. 
A treatise on the Deep-Sea and Pelagic Fishes of the World, based chiefly upon the collections made by the 
steamers Blake, Albatross, and Fish Hawk in the Northwestern Atlantic, with an Atlas containing 417 figures, 
by George Brown Goode, Ph.D., LL.D., and Tarleton H. Bean, M.D., M.S. Washington: Government 
Printing Office. 1895. 2 vols., 4°; I., xxxv-+26*, 553 pp-; II., xxiii+26* pp., 123 pl. 
