GOODE, GEORGE BROWN (1851-1896), American zoologist, was born in New Albany, Ind., on Feb. 13, 1851. He graduated from Wesleyan University at Middletown, Conn., and spent a year at Harvard studying natural history under Agassiz. In 1874 he became chief of the division of fisheries at the National Museum, Washington, D.C., and in 1887 assistant secretary of the Smithsonian Institution in charge of the National Museum, which position he held until his death at Washington, on Sept. 6, 1896. Under his direction the collections at the museum were entirely reorganized and recatalogued in a scientific manner and displayed with an educational aim in view. His ideas of museum admin istration and display as expressed in his papers "Museums of the Future" and "Principles of Museum Administration" (U.S. Na tional Museum Report, pt. ii., 1897) influenced nearly every im portant museum of the period. They were also spread by the remarkable Government exhibits prepared by Goode for the Cen tennial Exhibition of 1876, The World's Columbian Exposition of 1893, exhibitions at Berlin (188o), London (1883) and Madrid (1892-93) and many others. Goode directed the fisheries division of the loth census (188o) and prepared the report in seven quarto volumes The Fisheries and Fishing Industries of the United States (1884-8 7) . He wrote American Fishes (1888) and in 1896 pub lished his most important scientific work, Ocean Ichthyology. He was prominent in the organization and conduct of scientific societies, interested in the history of science, in which field he prepared many papers, and an indefatigable bibliographer of the writings of naturalists. The Annual Report of the U.S. Nat. Museum for 1897 contains a bibliography of Goode's publications together with memoirs by S. P. Langley and others.
See also D. S. Jordan, ed., Leading Men of Science (19io).