868 The American Naturalist. [October, 
In addition, he was a member of many of the leading scientific soci- 
eties, both in this country and abroad, including the Zoological Society 
of London, the National Academy of Sciences in the United States, 
and was recently elected Vice President of the American Association 
for the Advancement of Science for the Section on Zoology. 
Dr. Goode had received the degree of Ph. D. from the Indiana Uni- 
versity, and that of LL. D. from Wesleyan University, and his ser- 
vices at the Madrid Exposition gained for him the decoration of Isa- 
bella. 
Dr. Goode was respected and loved by all who knew him, and he 
was recognized as a fit successor to Professor Baird, the founder of the 
National Museum. 
Josiah Dwight Whitney, Professor of Geology at Harvard 
University, died at New London, N. H., at the age of 77 years. He was 
graduated from Yale in 1839, and from that time until his death he 
was actively engaged in geological research. His field work included 
a survey of New Hampshire, a geological exploration of the Lake 
Superior region, and a survey of the mining regions of all the States 
east of the Mississippi. In 1855 he was appointed State Chemist of 
Iowa, and was a member of the faculty of the Iowa State University, 
later also held the position of State Geologist of California. He was 
appointed Professor of Geology at Harvard in 1860. In time this 
position was guaranteed him for life in consideration of the gift of his 
geological library to the museum of that institution. Prof. Whitney 
was one of our ablest geologists, and like many men of genius he be- 
longed to the genus irritabile. He was an educated musician, no doubt 
finding that music is useful for “nerves.” He had little patience with 
lay stupidity, and did not always conciliate “the powers that be.” 
It will be recalled that the Third International Zoological Congress 
(Leyden, Sept., 1895) appointed an International Commission of five 
members to study the various codes of nomenclature in use in different 
countries, with a view to arriving at a more definite international 
agreement upon the points of difference to be found in these codes. 
This Commission is composed of Dr. Raphael Blanchard (France), 
Prof. Carus (Germany), Prof. Jentink (Holland), Dr. Sclater (Eng- 
land) and Dr, Stiles (United States). 
It will also be recalled that Dr. Stiles requested the appointment of 
an American Advisory Committee, to which he might “ submit for ap- 
proval or disapproval all of the questions which he intended to sup- 
