GOODE, GEORGE BROWN (1,951-90). An Ameri can ichthyologist, born in New Albany, Ind. Ile graduated in 1870 from Wesleyan University, at Middletown, Conn., and then studied under Louis Agassiz. From 1871 to 1877 he was cura tor of the Museum at Wesleyan University. and in 1873 he became an assistant in the United States Fish Commission, and also a member of the scientific staff of the United States National Museum, of which he was made assistant director in 1881. From 1887 until his death he served as the assistant secretary of the Smithsonian In stitution in charge of the National Museum. Goode was a prominent ichthyologist. He also was prominently connected with various popular and scientific exhibitions, as commissioner of the United States to the fisheries exhibitions at Ber lin in 1880 and London in 1883, as representative of the Smithsonian Institution at the exhibitions at New Orleans in 1884, Cincinnati in 1888, Louisville in 1888, and Atlanta in 1895, and as successively commissioner and commissioner general of the United States at the Columbian Historical Exposition at Madrid in 1892-93. He planned classifications for, and was one of the directors of, the United States Government ex hibit at the World's Columbian Exposition at Chicago in 1893. In 1888 he was elected to the
National Academy of Sciences; and at various times he received foreign honors, including the decoration of the Spanish Order of Isabella the Catholic, with the grade of commander. His pub lications number about four hundred, of which these are important: Catalogue of Fishes of the Bermudas (1379) ; History of the Menhaden (1880) ; editor of Fisheries and Fishery Indus tries of the United States (in 7 vols., 1884-87) ; American Fishes: A Popular Treatise upon the Game and Food Fishes of North America (1S88); Oceanic Ichthyology (with Tarleton H. Bean, 1896). Goode was an authority on the manage ment of museums, and wrote: Museums of the Future (1890) ; Principles of Museum Adminis tration (1896) ; and Annual Reports, as director of the National Museum. He was also interested in historical studies, and wrote: The Beginnings of Natural History in America (1886) ; The Be ginnings of American Science (1889) ; The Origin of the National Scientific and Educational In stitutions of the United States (1890).