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and continued in that place, which position he retained only until the 
the law could be amended, making that office an independent one. 
His relation to the Fish Commission led naturally to his serving as 
United States Commissioner to the Fisheries Exhibition in Berlin in 
1880, and in London in 1883. 
His experience gained at the Centennial Exhibition in 1876 resulted 
in his being placed at the head of the Smithsonian Institution and 
National Museum exhibits at the expositions in New Orleans, Cincin- 
nati, Louisville, and Atlanta. He also served in charge of the exhibi- 
tion of the National Museum at the Columbian Exposition, in Chi- 
cago, in 1893. 
In all of this work his remarkable genius for museum administration 
manifested itself, and the success of the national exhibits was largely 
due to his remarkable abilities. 
» Of his many publications the most important were in the line of his 
chosen science, ichthyology. Among them, worthy of commendation, 
are “ The Game Fishes of the United States,’ 1879; “The Fisheries 
and Fishing Industries of the United States” (7 vols.), 1884; “ Amer- 
ican Fishes,” 1887, and with T. H. Bean, “Oceanic Ichthyology,” 
1893. His writings on museum work include, “ Plan of Classification 
for the World’s Columbian Exposition,” 1890, and ,‘ Museums of the 
Future, 1890, both of which are quoted as authority the world over. 
Mention must be made of his interest in genealogy. As a boy he he- 
gan the preparation of the genealogy of his family, which resulted in 
1888 in “Our Virginia Cousins.” This led naturally to his being 
chosen one of the editors of the “ Wesleyan Book,” and later to his 
active participation in the founding of the American Historical Associ- 
ation, in the proceedings of which he published “The Origin of 
the National Scientific and Educational Institutions of the United 
States ” in 1890. 
Dr. Goode was one of the founders of the District of Columbia Soci- 
ety of the Sons of the American Revolution, becoming at once one of 
the officers, and since 1894, its President. He was also a Vice-Presi- 
dent of the Sons of the Revolution and a Deputy Governor of the So- 
ciety of Colonial Wars. In the scientific societies of Washington City 
he was ever a prominent member, having been President of the Philo- 
sophical Society and the Biological Society. He had been President 
of the Cosmos Club, and was at the time of his death an overseer of 
the Columbian University, and in many other ways had been actively 
associated with the intellectual progress of the National Capital. 
