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was early interested in natural history studies, graduated at Wes- 

 leyan in 1870, and in the following year took charge of the college 

 museum. His chief scientific work was in ichthyology, and he 

 published numerous works on fish and fisheries. He began his 

 official connection with the Smithsonian Institution in 1873, and 

 from 1874 to 1887 held the office of chief of the division of 

 fisheries. He was U. S. commissioner to the international fishery 

 exhibitions in 1880 at Berlin and in 1883 at London. In the 

 Halifax fisheries commission he was the statistical expert 

 employed by the government, and in 1879-80 he had charge of the 

 fisheries division of the 10th census. In 1877 Mr. Goode was 

 appointed a curator, and in 1881 assistant director, of the National 

 Museum, and in 1888 he became assistant secretary of the Smith- 

 sonian Institution, which position he held at the time of his death. 



It was in the administration of the internal aflTairs of the Smith- 

 sonian Institution that his great ability and tact as an organizer 

 and executive were displayed. He made himself acquainted with 

 every detail of the complex museum, and was able to speak with 

 authority in such publications as " Plan of Classification for the 

 World's Columbian Exposition" and "Museums of the Future." 

 In his relations with his fellow- workers in science Mr. Goode was 

 liberal in extending both assistance and encouragement to scien- 

 tific progress, and his loss will be deeply felt by those engaged in 

 the promotion of science both at home and abroad. His publica- 

 tions were numerous, especially in the department of Ichthyology. 

 His latest work (Ocean 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. 

 2 vols. Text, pp. 557. Plates, 122. Washington, 1895), pub- 

 lished in cooperation with Dr. T. H. Beam, was issued only a 

 short time before his death, and will stand as a lasting memorial 

 of his energy and skill as a naturalist. He was a member of the 

 National Academy of Sciences and of numerous other scientific 

 bodies. 



Sir William Robert Grove died in August last at the ad- 

 vanced age of eighty-five. Though belonging to the legal pro- 

 fession and having devoted a large part of his life to the law, his 

 contributions to physical science, more especially from 1835 to 

 1866, were of great value. The *• Grove cell" and "the Grove 

 gas battery " are familiar to all workers in physics. His essay 

 on "The Correlation of Physical Forces," which appeared in 

 1846, has been spoken of as "the first systematic statement of the 

 connections between the different departments of physical phe- 

 nomena." This essay and that of Helmholtz, of the following 

 year, " may be said to form the starting point of the modern 

 science of energetics, of which the experimental foundation was 

 even then being overhauled and laid still more deeply and stably 

 by Joule." 



Dr. August Kekulb, Professor of Chemistry at the University 

 of Bonn, died on July 13 at the age of sixty-six years. 



