498 THE AMERICAN NATURALIST. 
Brown Goode relating to museums and to the development of science 
in America are among the most important issued, and the United 
States National Museum has done a real service in reprinting a 
selection of the same. (A Memorial of George Brown Goode, with a 
Selection of his Papers on Museums and on the History of Science 
in America, Ann. Rept. Smithsonian Institute, Rept. U. SS. Nat'l 
Museum, Pt. II, 515 pp., 110 pls., 190r.) 
Editorially the volume shows the faults due to inadequate care that 
are common to many of the publications of the United States National 
Museum. A few instances, taken quite at random, may be men- 
tioned: page 4, the invitation to the Memorial meeting is cited as 
. part of the program, the actual program following on page 5; a 
footnote with reference to the original place of publication should 
have been given with all of the reprinted papers ; even as given, the 
footnotes are not always accurate ; on page 459 the names of many 
scientific men appear, some as “leading spirits,” others as “rising 
men,” but it is not easy to divine why all the leading spirits should 
be indexed and all the rising men, save Powell, should be omitted 
from the index ; on the same page (459) Ordway, mentioned as leav- 
ing the ranks of science for the army, is indexed as John M., a mis- 
take for Albert; the bibliography needs revision; the titles in some 
cases are not exact; on page 49o the address * The Beginnings of 
American Science ” is recorded as delivered at the eighth anniversary 
meeting of the Biological Society of Washington, a statement at 
variance with the footnote on page 409; the Oceanic ichthyology 
of Goode and Bean was published as Vol. XXII of the Memoirs 
of the Museum of Comparative Zoology as well as a special bulletin 
of the U. S. National Museum, but the reference to the Memoirs is 
omitted on page 496; the astronomer Tycho Brahe is indexed under 
T as Tycho Brake, an editorial oversight recalling Judge Story’s 
great mind and Lyell's correspondent Tromso. 
