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do with the Columbian Historical Exposition held in Madrid, Spain, during 
the winter months of 1892-1893, and, after the death of the Commissioner 
General, acted in that capacity. His services in that connection gained 
for him the Order of Isabella the Catholic with the grade of Commander. 
In this hasty summary of his life, only the more important of his many 
interests can be referred to; at least, mention must be made of his great 
fondness for matters pertaining to American history. His study of gene- 
alogy began when he was but a boy, and led to his publication of the record 
of his family under the title of “Our Virginia Cousins.” Soon after leaving 
college he was made one of the editors of the Alumni Record, of Wesleyan 
University, which is among the best of the “college books.” He was one of 
the founders of the American Historical Association and contributed to its 
proceedings in 1890 his valuable paper on “The Origin of the National 
Scientific and Educational Institutions of the United States.” He was also 
a member of the newly organized Southern Historical Society. Much of 
his leisure during the past two summers was given up to the preparation 
of the material that is to be used in the “ Half Century Book of the Smith- 
sonian Institution,” which was his project, and which, when published, will 
be a monument to his knowledge of science in this country during the half- 
century of the existence of the Smithsonian Institution. 
Dr. Goode was one of the founders of the District of Columbia Society of 
the Sons of the American Revolution, becoming from the beginning one of 
its officers and since 1894 its president. He was a vice-president of the 
Society of the Sons of the Revolution and a lieutenant-governor of the 
Society of Colonial Wars. 
In scientific societies he was equally conspicuous. In Washington he 
was a founder in several, and was a past president of the Philosophical 
Society and of the Biological Society, to both of which he contributed, on 
retiring, addresses that treated of the history of American science. Other 
societies both in this country and abroad were honored in having his name 
on their rolls. Among these were the Zodlogical Society of London and the 
National Academy of Sciences in the United States, to which he was elected 
in 1888. He was elected a member of the American Association for the 
Advancement of Science in 1873, and at its meeting held in Buffalo during 
August of the year of his death he was chosen a vice-president for the sec- 
tion on zodlogy. 
The honorary degree of LLD. was conferred upon him by Wesleyan 
University and the degree of Ph.D. by Indiana University. 
