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Smithsonian Institution. He was made Assistant Director 
of the National Museum in 1881, and Assistant Secretary of 
the Smithsonian Institution, in charge of the National Mu¬ 
seum, in 1887. He also held for a time, after the death of 
Professor Baird, .the post of United States Commissioner of 
Fish and Fisheries, and was connected officially with every 
exposition save one in which the United States participated 
from 1876, either at home or abroad. 
Careful biographies of Mr. Goode have been prepared by 
others, and a memorial volume is now printing which will 
give a record of his life and work. It will be fitting before 
this Society to speak of him in but a general way, since any 
detailed account would far transcend the limits which the 
Society allots to biographies of its members. 
Mr. Goode was a naturalist of the broad old-fashioned type. 
Although he specialized in fishery work and in later years on 
the fauna of the deep seas, he always stood for catholicity; 
he thought that every scientific man should have his foun¬ 
dations laid on the old academic lines, and viewed with a 
certain disfavor the highly specialized methods of the modem 
biologists. 
Working under unfavorable conditions, in an unsuitable 
building, and with great restrictions in funds, he yet became 
one of the foremost Museum administrators of his time, com¬ 
bining to the full a sympathy with the special student and 
the general visitor, bringing to bear his fine artistic instincts 
as to color and form, developing a system of labeling which 
has nowhere else been equaled, and being the first to reduce 
to a method the principles of Museum administration. 
He was a lover of books, of prints, of autographs, and all 
these he collected systematically and successfully. He was 
an accomplished musician, and collected American linguistic 
dialectic forms with such assiduity that his manuscript of 
these is probably the largest in existence. 
He was an American deeply interested in the welfare of 
the whole country, a devoted student of the writings of the 
Fathers of the Republic, a hater of all injustice, greed, and 
