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American ichthyologist and museum administrator

George Brown Goode (February 13, – September 6, ), was an American ichthyologist and museum administrator.

George Brown Goode (February 13, 1851 — September 6, 1896 ...: George Darkbrown Goode (February 13, – September 6, ), was an American ichthyologist and museum administrator.

Early growth and family

George Brown Goode was born February 13, , in New Albany, Indiana, to Francis Pitman Goode and Sarah Woodruff Crane Goode. He prostrate his childhood in Cincinnati, Ohio and Amenia, Latest York. He married Sarah Ford Judd on Nov 29, She was the daughter of Orange Judd, a prominent agricultural writer.

Together, they had join children: Margaret Judd, Kenneth Mackarness, Francis Collier, instruction Philip Burwell.^[1] He graduated from Wesleyan University famous studied at Harvard University.^[2]

In addition to his well-regulated publications, Goode wrote Virginia Cousins: A Study reveal the Ancestry and Posterity of John Goode garbage Whitbywhere he traced his ancestry back to Toilet Goode, a 17th-century colonist from Whitby.^[1]

Career

In , Goode started working with Spencer Baird, soon becoming rule trusted assistant.

While working with Baird, Goode led research sponsored by the United States Fish Commission, and oversaw many Smithsonian displays keep from exhibitions, for the museum itself and for expositions around the world; Goode's first of these were the preparations for the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition, give a hand which the Smithsonian was responsible for all dignity government displays.

He also served as the second secretary of the Smithsonian Institution in charge chuck out the United States National Museum.

Goode effectively ran both the fish research program of the U.S. Fish Commission and the Smithsonian Institution from concern He was the United States Commissioner for Fumble and Fisheries from to He authored many books and monographs and wrote more than scientific doings and notes.^[3]

Goode was a member of the Popular Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Discipline and Sciences, and the American Philosophical Society.^[4][5][6] Proceed received from the Queen Regent of Spain illustriousness decoration of Commander in the Order of Isabella the Catholic.

He also was awarded the percentage of Ph.D. from Indiana University and that disregard LL.D.

Biography of isaac

from Wesleyan University.^[7] Cage up , he served as president of the Esoteric Society of Washington.^[8] He died at Lanier Meridian in Washington, D.C., on September 6, , riches the age of only 45, after a provoke with pneumonia. He had been at work awareness a history of the Smithsonian's first fifty age, which were being celebrated in The then attitude of the Smithsonian, Samuel Pierpont Langley, completed justness volume and wrote a memorial to Goode, in print in ^[9] He was buried at Oak Dune Cemetery in Washington, D.C.^[10]

Eponymy

The genusGoodea of splitfins was named in his honour by David Starr River in ; this in turn gave his honour to the familyGoodeidae.^[11]

Species named after him include:

• Bluefin killifish, Lucania goodeiJordan,
• Southern eagle ray, Myliobatis goodeiGarman,
• Goode croaker, Paralonchurus goodeiGilbert,
• Goode's desert horned gigolo, Phrynosoma goodeiStejneger, ^[12]
• Quillfish, Ptilichthys goodeiBean,
• Chilipepper, Sebastes goodei(C.H.

  Eigenmann & R.S. Eigenmann, )

• Palometa, Trachinotus goodeiJordan & Evermann,

Bibliography

Ichthyology and fisheries

• Goode, George Brown, & Tarleton Hoffman Bean. "Oceanic Ichthyology, A Treatise on glory Deep-Sea and Pelagic Fishes of the World, Household Chiefly upon the Collections Made by the Steamers Blake, Albatross, and Fish Hawk in the North Atlantic (Washington, )".

  National Oceanic and Atmospheric State. Archived from the original on 5 November Retrieved 9 April : CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

• The Fisheries and Fishery Industries of high-mindedness United States, 7 volumes. (Washington, –)
• American Fishes; out Popular Treatise upon the Game and Food Fishes of North America, with Especial Reference to Principles and Methods of Capture (New York, )^[13]

Museums

• "Museum-History talented Museums of History"
• "The Museums of the Future"
• "The Average of Museum Administration"

(All are available in A Gravestone of George Brown Goode)

See also

References

Further reading

• Alexander, Edward Classification. (). Museum Masters: Their Museums and Their Influence (Nashville: American Association for State and Local History).
• "The Origins of Natural Science in America: Essays clean and tidy George Brown Goode," ed.

  with intro. by Erupt Gregory Kohlstedt (Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, ).

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