J from 1867 to 1872 he held a protcs- 

 ■ sorship in natural science. During '^.g 0 

 ^this same period he also served as 1= 

 professor of materia medica at tile Cts, 

 Medical School of Maine. In 1872 his 

 hrst active connection with Harvard 

 began. Coming to this city for the 



[• first year as a lecturer on vege- 

 table physiology ancl instructor in 

 botany, he became assistant profes- 



fsor in the former subject in the fol- 

 lowing year, a position which he 

 held until 1878. In this year he was 



( appointed professor of botany, a 



I chair which he gave up ten years 

 later to ibecouie Fisher professor of 



^ natural history. 



After a long and interesting 

 career at Harvard, Professor Goodale 



{resigned his relation with the col- 

 lege iii the spring of 1909 but the 

 Harvard Corporation subsequently 

 created him professor emeritus in 

 the Fisher professorship of natural 

 history, this appointment dating 



1 from September 1, 1909. His con- 



|nection with the university, dating 

 from 1872, has been surpassed by 



'very few members of the faculty 

 body. 



In 1866 Professor Goodale mar- 

 ried Henrietta Juel Hobson of Saco. 

 Me., and she and two sons survive, i 

 the latter being Dr. Joseph L. 

 Coodalc, of 258 Beacon street, Bos- 

 :ton; and Francis G. Goodale, of 

 Weston. There also is a brother, 

 Dr. Walter Temple Goodale, of 

 Saco. - 



Professor Goodale was a member 

 of the National Academy, of 

 Sciences, American Philosophical 

 Society, American Society of Natur- 

 alists, Association of American Ana- 

 tomists, American Physiological So- 

 ii'tv, and honorary member of the 

 \ i V. V'ork Academy of Sciences and 

 ;i ti-Uow of the American Academy 

 ijf Arts and Sciences, attd the Royal 

 Geographical Society. ,- - ... 



