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Incidental mention has been made of some of his larger works, but a 
complete bibliography of his papers would include hundreds of titles, so 
indefatigable had he been in the too few years of his busy life. He has 
gone, but his influence will remain so long as the National Museum shall 
exist, and his memory will ever be cherished by all who had learned to love 
and respect him. ’ 
II. 
Dr. Goode’s first contribution to science was published in 1871 in his 
twenty-first year and incorporated in a note of the editors of the American 
Naturalist (v. 489) ; it merely recorded the occurrence of ‘‘ The bill fish in 
fresh water” in the Connecticut River. 
He had, however, previously contributed, from 1869 to 1871, seven short 
articles to the serial publication of his college (Wesleyan), entitled Ze 
College Argus. His first memoir giving any indication of his range of 
reading and ability in the systematization of facts was published two years 
later (1873) “On the question ‘Do snakes swallow their young ?’’’* 
Through an advertisement in Zhe American Agriculturist, a weekly journal 
with a large circulation in rural districts, he obtained numerous answers to 
the question, and thus was enabled to supplement the records previously 
published by original accounts. The result of a critical survey of the data 
at command compelled him to admit that there was a good foundation in 
fact for the popular belief, and that certain viviparous snakes do really 
admit their young, who instinctively seek refuge in the interior of their 
mother when danger threatens, and are liberated when it has passed.f 
A “Catalogue of the Fishes of the Bermudas,” } published in 1876, fur- 
nished additional evidence of knowledge of the literature of his subject and 
ability to use it to advantage in the discussion of mooted questions, and it 
also evinced his power of observation. 
In the same year, 1876, appeared another work which, to a still greater 
degree, rendered manifest those same mental characteristics. The work 
was only a catalogue, but perhaps from no other publication can some 
* On the Question “Do Snakes swallow their Young?’’ In Proc. Amer. Assoc. Advan. Sci. 1873 (1874), 
pp. 176-185. Also separately, repaged, 12 pp. 
+ Mr. H. Tootal Broadhurst has collected a number of original observations in a recently published pamphlet 
confirming the allegation that mother snakes may receive their young within their mouths. Mr, Broadhurst 
was apparently unacquainted with Dr. Goode’s article; his own is entitled, ‘‘Do the Young of Vipers take 
HR cluge ha the Throat of the Mother in Cases of Sudden Surprise or Danger?” (Dumfries, July, 1895. 
VO, 29 pp. 
$ Catalogue of the Fishes of the Bermudas, Based chiefly on the collectings of the United States National 
Museum. . . . Washington: Government Printing Office. 1876. [8° pp. (2) 1-82.— Bulletin United States 
National Museum. No, 5.] 
