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GEORGE BROWN GOODE. 
No sorrows now disturb him, 
No disappointment there; 
No worldly pride to curb him 
In his sublime career. 
Heaven’s azure arch is over him, 
Earth’s tranquil breast beneath. 
The stars are brightly glowing, 
The breezes play around, 
The flowers are sweetly blowing, 
The dew is on the ground, 
And emerald mosses cover him, 
How beautiful is death! 
Robert Fletcher, M. D. 
The following list comprises the societies to which Dr. Godding be¬ 
longed : 
Medical Association, District of Columbia; Medical Society, District of 
Columbia; Massachusetts State Medical Society, American Medical Asso¬ 
ciation, American Medico-Psychological Association, British Psychological 
Society, Medico-Legal Society, Columbia Historical Society (charter mem¬ 
ber), Literary Society of Washington, Colonization Society, American 
Social Science Association. 
GEORGE BROWN GOODE. 
1851-1896. 
[Read before the Society, December 9, 1899.] 
George Brown Goode was born in New Albany, Indiana, 
February 13, 1851, and died in the city of Washington Sep¬ 
tember 6, 1896. He traced his ancestor in this country to 
John Goode, of Whitby, who settled in Virginia prior to 1661. 
He was educated at Wesleyan University, Middletown, Con¬ 
necticut, being graduated in 1870, and early showed a de¬ 
cided taste for natural history, taking a post-graduate course 
under Agassiz at Harvard, whence he returned in 1871 to 
Middletown to assume charge of the small University mu¬ 
seum. He became associated with the National Museum 
and engaged in the work of the Fish Commission under Pro¬ 
fessor Baird in 1873 and soon was a leading spirit in the 
