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DR. G. BROWN GOODE. 
Dr. GEOTiaE Bkown Goodb, Assistant Secretary of the 
Smithsonian Institution and Curator in charge of the 
National Museum, died on Sunday last at his liome in the 
suburbs of Washington. In his death these two great insti- 
tutions have suffered a severe loss. 
Dr. Goode came of old Colonial stock, being descended from 
John Goode, who, in 1675-76, fought against the Indians in 
the Virginia Colonial forces undo.r Gen. Bacon, as well as 
from William Swaine and Hugh Calkin, who were deputies 
to the general court of Massachusetts in 1636 and 1650 re- 
spectively. He was born in New Albany, Indiana, in 1851, 
and was graduated from Wesleyan University in 1870. His 
interest in science was already so great that in 1871 
he was placed in charge of the museum of that institu- 
tion. In 1873 he was invited to Washington, and 
took a place in the Smithsonian Institution. From that 
time until the death of Prof. Baird, he was in close and in- 
timate association with that eminent man, who selected him 
for many services of responsibility and trust. At the Cen- 
tennial Exposition of 1876 he had charge of the natural his- 
tory division. In 1877 he served the State Department as 
statistical expert in connection with the Halifax Fisheries 
Commission. In 1880 he was appointed United States Com- 
missioner to the International Fisheries Exhibition held in 
Berlin, and he held the same position in London in 1883. In 
1887 he was appointed United States Fish Commissioner to 
succeed Prof. Baird, but gave up the position because it in- 
terfered too much with his work in the National Museum. 
He was a member of the Government executive board for the 
New Orleans, Cincinnati and Louisville expositions in 1884, 
and represented the Smithsonian Institution at the World's 
Fair in Chicago in 1893. In 1895 he was a member of the 
board of awards at the Cotton States International Exposi- 
tion at Atlanta. 
Dr. Goode was an investigator and published many papers 
chiefly on fishery subjects and on museum administration. 
One of the most important of the works to which his name 
is attached is the Fishery Industries of the United States, a 
series of volumes to which any one interested in fish or tish- 
ing must constantly refer. There was no higher authority 
than he on all matters connected with this subject. Of late 
years the exigencies of his important positions in Washing- 
ton had in some measure deflected Dr. Goode's energies 
from actual personal investigation in science to the directing 
of such investigation. Yet he continued to do much writing, 
and there is soon to be issued a book on deep sea fishes, the 
joint production of Dr. Goode and Dr. Bean, Nevertheless 
ihis work became more and more administrative, but it was 
not on that account less effective, and it may be doubted 
whether in all Washington, that center of scientific work for 
.America, there is a man who in the same time ha§ accom- 
plished so much for science as he. 
Notwithstanding all his work on his favorite subject, it is 
as the planner and director of the National Museum that 
Dr. Goode will chiefly be remembered in Washington and 
throughout the scientific world. To him far more than to 
anj^ one else was due the success of this great institution. 
To it he gave his best thought and time and work. He had 
many able coadjutors in the different departments, but he 
was the guiding spirit, the head, and wlule be has not hved 
to see all his plans carried out, yet they axe go far completed 
that only their execution remains to make the National 
Museum by far the finest museum in the world. This then 
is Dr. Goode's monument, a memorial worthy the man, and 
one which is destined to secure for him and for his life work 
growing appreciation and livelier public gratitude as the 
people of the United States shall realize in fuller measure 
the magnitude and the excellence of their national possession 
in the museum. 
One secret of the remarkable success achieved by Dr. 
Goode lay in his charming personality. Of him it may be 
truly said that he was universally beloved by his associates. 
It was equally his part to encourage men and to help them 
on, and to adjust differences and to smooth over bickerings, 
and this last he accomplished with the utmost tact and skill, 
finally winning over both disputants to his view of the case. 
Dr. Goode's energy and his love for his work induced him 
to labor so hard and so continuously that he was always 
at the breaking-down point; so it was that when he was 
stricken with pneumonia a few days ago he had no recuper- 
ative power, and although not supposed to be dangerously 
ill, he succumbed to the disease. 
Dr. Goode's contributions to the Forest and Stbeam 
began more than twenty years ago and were continued over 
many years, and until the pressure of his work in Washing- 
ton put an end to any but the most special papers. The 
sense of personal loss which has come into this oflice with 
the news of his death is but typical of the unaffected sorrow 
with which that intelligence will be received everywhere 
among those whose privilege it was to know and esteem him. 
SNAP SHOTS. 
For his breakfast, one morning in New York, Li Hung 
Chang was presented with a fresh Virginia shad. He was 
so well pleased with it that he requested his host to supply 
some little shad for stocking the Yang-tse-Kiang River in 
China. We take it that the enterprise would by no means 
baffle the skill and ingenuity of American fishculturists, and 
such an undertaking would be only one more in a long line 
of transplantings of the fishes of this continent to distant 
lands. 
American black bass are now counted among the angling 
resources of Great Britain. Our rainbow trout is numbered 
among the game fishes of England and Germany, and of far- 
away New Zealand. The stocking of New Zealand waters 
with both the rainbow trout and the speckled has been a 
pronounced success. The current report of the Wellington 
(,N. Z.) Acclimatization Society records that the rainbow is a 
species which is "well established and is giving splendid 
sport, proving itself to be intermediate in its habits between 
the salmon and the trout. It is a valuable addition to our 
rivers." 
turkey from the] real J.turkey. | For it often happ^n3,jfhat a 
caller who fails to deceive the birds does yelp to the undbing 
of a fellow man ; the birds recognize the false note in the cry, 
but the man does not. In the same week in August that a 
Maine camper shot at a movement in the brush, thinking it a 
bear, and killed a man, a like tragedy was enacted in the,:wild 
turkey covers of Alachua, Florida. Two hunters had gone 
out together and had separated for turkey calling. After a 
while one man heard the other yelping, took him for, a tur- 
key and yelped in reply. The calls and answers came nearer 
and nearer together as the two men crept toward One an- 
other, until finally one hunter eagerly peering in+o the brush 
saw a movement of what he thought was the bird, shot at 
the mark, and rushed forward only to find that he hadmade 
a victim of his companion. 
These international transfers of food resources are among 
the most interesting and impressive achievements of fish- 
culture. It is worthy of note that our own continent is so 
rich in the supply and so favored in the quality of its in- 
digenous fishes, that while we are sending our own species 
for adoption by other countries, they profess to send us in 
return out of their own indigenous fishery resources noth- 
ing worthy to take the place of our natural supply. As to 
China, her carp may not for a moment be counted an equiva- 
lent in exchange for the American shad which so tickled the 
palate of the visiting Viceroy. Carp in some form or an- 
other must have been among the seventy courses of the 
banquet given to Gen. Grant by Li Hung Chang 
in Tientsin in 1879; but it is inconceivable that the 
Americans should have been so charmed with the fish 
as to have desired its acquisition for United States rivers; 
nor is it recorded that the shark's fia tid-bits prompted the 
guests to suggest that we should open our ports to Chinese 
man-eaters. But in this wonderful dinner, with its eggs pre- 
served for forty years and other delicacies, we may be sure 
that some one of the Chinese pheasants was included, and it 
was perhaps on this occasion, then, that J udge O. N. Denny, 
our Consul- General and a guest at the banquet, resolved to 
introduce the Mongolian bird to the sportsmen of America. 
Through Judge Denny's offices China has contributed to the 
continent a new game bird; in return we might gracefully 
present her with the American shad, a food fish which Li 
Hung Chang declared to be the finest fish he had ever eaten. 
Mr. Tom Padgitt, of Waco, Texas, who is stirring up the 
sportsmen to do something about the desperate gathe situa- 
tion, has given out a letter received from Mr. Horsbrugh, 
manager of extensive pasture tracts in western Texas; who 
says that all over the western counties last year quail Vere 
netted in vast numbers for export at $1 a dozen at the 
shipping points. If this wholesale destruction goes on, he 
declares, the quail supply will be exterminated before the 
danger has fairly been realized. Mr. Horsbrugh thinks it is 
time that the Legislature took up the question of quail pro- 
tection in dead earnest ; and to this end he would persuade 
the politicians to believe that "more voters would like to see 
the quail treated as God Almighty meant them to be thaa 
the comparatively few who net and haul them off by the 
thousands amount to. In the Old Testament we read that 
when the children of Israel were making their excursion out 
of the land of Egypt they struck a desert and liked to have 
starved for something to eat. The Lord sent them manna 
and quail, and they came through all right. This He did to 
supply their immediate wants. Had they gone to netting 
and hauling off the birds, instead of using them right, .God 
would have shut down on them quick enough." if Mr. 
Horsbrugh has • interpreted the Biblical passage aright, it 
would appear that the subject of quail destruction in western 
Texas might be taken up in earnest not only by the poli- 
ticians, but by the c'ergy as well. 
The last work of the Texas Legislature with respect to 
game protection was to exempt a hundred and twenty counties 
from the various provisions of the law. We presume that 
the member from each of these counties rose in his seat and 
demanded immunity for his constituents. No law can 
amount to much when one-half of the State is exempt from 
it and the other half pays no attention to it. If game pro- 
tection is good for one county, it is good for all. Make the 
Texas game law cover the State of Texas. 
The last twenty years have witnessed in this country a 
succession of game protective clubs and associations ; but if 
we are not mistaken no single one of these has maintained its 
active work in the field for the entire term of that period. 
The average life of a game protective association is short, 
that is to say the active life, for very often the name and the 
organization remain long after their existence is of any prac- 
tical account as a" live force for good. The rule is that a 
handful of enthusiasts, sometimes a single individual, gives 
the impetus, others join in the movement, plans are laid out> 
work is begun and the outlook is full of promise. Then comes 
the call for individual and personal effort, which is given 
while enthusiasm lasts; but it does not last very long, 
and gradually the number of active members dwindles 
until only the original enthusiast is left; then he too 
grows weary, and only the name remains. If there are ex- 
ceptions to the rule, fhey are few. And yet we could not 
fall into a more serious error than to criticise such efforts as 
wasted. In the aggregate they count for all that we have of 
game protection in this country. One individual or a single 
society may appear to have accomplished little, and yet the 
influence of each has made up that public sentiment which 
has gi-own in the years from the 70s to the 90s to be such a 
potent force. We may not recognize the thousand and one 
contributions of individual enthusiasm, but we do know the 
results; we can appreciate the progress insured by the united 
influences of them all. 
That the wild turkey hunter be so expert in simulating the 
bird's call as to lure the game within range is not enough ; he 
must cultivate his own ear for bird music, so that he may 
be able to distinguiiih the false not§ from the true, jthe vam 
Li Hung Chang's yellow jacket would protect him in the 
woods from being mistaken for a deer. The effect upon the 
game would be either to fascinate it or to drive it into thg 
lecond county beyond, 
