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intellectual qualities be so readily and correctly gauged by a competent 
judge as an elaborate catalogue. Powers of analysis and synthesis, and 
the ability to weigh the relative values of the material at hand, may make 
a “mere catalogue ’”’ a valuable epitome of a collection and of a science. 
Such a production was the “Classification of the Collection to illustrate the 
Animal Resources of the United States,” * a work of 126 pages ; three years 
later this catalogue served as the basis for and was elaborated and expanded 
into a large “‘ Catalogue of the Collection to illustrate the Animal Resources 
and the Fisheries of the United States,” f a volume of 351 pages. These 
catalogues were for the tentative and adopted arrangement of material 
exhibited by the Smithsonian Institution and the United States Fish Com- 
mission at the “International Exhibition, 1876.” 
It was the ability that was manifested in these catalogues and the work 
incidental to their preparation that especially arrested the attention of Pro- 
fessor Baird and marked the author as one well adapted for the direction of a 
great museum. For signal success in such direction special qualifications are 
requisite. Only some of them are a mind well trained in analytical as well 
as synthetic methods, an artistic sense, critical ability, and multifarious 
knowledge, but above all the knowledge of men and how to deal with them. 
Perhaps no one has ever combined, in more harmonious proportions, such 
qualifications than G. Brown Goode. In him the National Museum of the 
United States and the world at large have lost one of the greatest of 
museum administrators. 
As a naturalist, the attention of Dr. Goode was especially directed to and 
even concentrated on the fishes. His memoirs, contributed mostly to the 
Proceedings of the United States National Museum, were numerous and 
chiefly descriptive of new species. (For many of these he had, as a 
collaborator, Dr. Tarleton Bean, then the curator of fishes of the United 
States National Museum.) Some of the memoirs, however, dealt with 
special groups, as the Menhaden (1879), Ostraciontide (1880), Carangi- 
dz (1881), the Sword-fishes (1881), and the Eel (1882). His monograph 
of the Menhaden (Brevoortia tyrannus), contributed originally to the Report 
* International Exhibition, 1876. Board in Behalf of United States Executive Departments. Classification 
of the Collection to illustrate the Animal Resources of the United States. A list of substances derived from 
the animal kingdom, with synopsis of the useful and injurious animals and a classification of the methods of 
capture and utilization. . .. Washington: Government Printing Office. 1876. [8° pp. 126. — A second edition 
with supplementary title as Bulletin No, 6, United States National Museum.] 
+ International Exhibition, 1876. Catalogue of the Collection to illustrate the Animal Resources and the 
Fisheries of the United States, exhibited at Philadelphia in 1876 by the Smithsonian Institution and the United 
States Fish Commission, and forming a part of the United States National Museum. . . . Washington: 
Government Printing Office. 1879. [8° pp. 351. (1)—Bulletin United States National Museum, No. 14.] 
