George Brown Goode
George Brown Goode | |
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Born | New Albany, Indiana, U.S. | February 13, 1851
Died | Washington, D.C., U.S. September 6, 1896 (aged 45) |
Resting place | Oak Hill Cemetery Washington, D.C., U.S. |
Education | Harvard University |
Alma mater | Wesleyan University |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Ichthyology, museology |
Institutions | Biological Society of Washington, Smithsonian Institution |
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George Brown Goode (February 13, 1851 – September 6, 1896), was an American
Early life and family
George Brown Goode was born February 13, 1851, in
In addition to his scientific publications, Goode wrote Virginia Cousins: A Study of the Ancestry and Posterity of John Goode of Whitbywhere he traced his ancestry back to John Goode, a 17th-century colonist from Whitby.[1]
Career
In 1872, Goode started working with
Goode effectively ran both the fish research program of the U.S. Fish Commission and the Smithsonian Institution from 1873 to 1887. He was the United States Commissioner for Fish and Fisheries from 1887 to 1888. He authored many books and monographs and wrote more than 100 scientific reports and notes.[3]
Goode was a member of the
Eponymy
The
Species named after him include:
- Bluefin killifish, Lucania goodei Jordan, 1880
- Southern eagle ray, Myliobatis goodei Garman, 1885
- Goode croaker, Paralonchurus goodei Gilbert, 1898
- Goode's desert horned lizard,
- Bean, 1881
- Chilipepper, Sebastes goodei (C.H. Eigenmann & R.S. Eigenmann, 1890)
- Palometa, Trachinotus goodei Jordan & Evermann, 1896
Bibliography
- Ichthyology and fisheries
- Goode, George Brown, & Tarleton Hoffman Bean. "Oceanic Ichthyology, A Treatise on the Deep-Sea and Pelagic Fishes of the World, Based Chiefly upon the Collections Made by the Steamers Blake, Albatross, and Fish Hawk in the Northwestern Atlantic (Washington, 1896)". National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Archived from the original on 5 November 2005. Retrieved 9 April 2006.
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: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - The Fisheries and Fishery Industries of the United States, 7 volumes. (Washington, 1884–1887)
- American Fishes; a Popular Treatise upon the Game and Food Fishes of North America, with Especial Reference to Habits and Methods of Capture (New York, 1888)[13]
- Museums
- "Museum-History and Museums of History"
- "The Museums of the Future"
- "The Principles of Museum Administration"
(All are available in A Memorial of George Brown Goode)
See also
References
- ^ ISBN 9780806351735.
- ^ "Britannica Academic".
- ^ "NOAA 200th Top Tens: History Makers: George Brown Goode".
- ^ "G. Brown Goode". www.nasonline.org. Retrieved 2024-04-11.
- ^ "George Brown Goode | American Academy of Arts and Sciences". www.amacad.org. 2023-02-09. Retrieved 2024-04-11.
- ^ "APS Member History". search.amphilsoc.org. Retrieved 2024-04-11.
- ^ "History of New Albany, (Floyd County) Indiana United States of America". Archived from the original on 2011-07-11. Retrieved 2010-11-10.
- ^ "Past Presidents". PSW Science. Retrieved 2022-06-22.
- ^ Langley, Samuel P. (1901). A Memorial of George Brown Goode: together with a selection of his papers on museums and on the history of science in America. (Washington: Government Printing Office)
- ^ "Oak Hill Cemetery, Georgetown, D.C. (Van Ness) - Lot 209 East" (PDF). Oak Hill Cemetery. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2022-03-02. Retrieved 2022-08-17.
- ^ Christopher Scharpf; Kenneth J. Lazara (26 April 2019). "Order CYPRINODONTIFORMES: Families PANTANODONTIDAE, CYPRINODONTIDAE, PROFUNDULIDAE, GOODEIDAE, FUNDULIDAE and FLUVIPHYLACIDAE". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 17 September 2019.
- ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Goode, p. 104).
- ^ "Review of American Fishes by G. Brown Goode". Science. XI (278): 265. 1 June 1888.
Further reading
- Alexander, Edward M. (1983). Museum Masters: Their Museums and Their Influence (Nashville: American Association for State and Local History).
- "The Origins of Natural Science in America: Essays of George Brown Goode," ed. with intro. by Sally Gregory Kohlstedt (Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1991).
External links
- Media related to George Brown Goode at Wikimedia Commons
- Works by or about George Brown Goode at Internet Archive
- Works by George Brown Goode at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
- Works by or about George Brown Goode at Wikisource
- The George Brown Goode Papers at the University of Virginia
- George Brown Goode Papers at the Smithsonian Institution Archives
- Samuel P. Langley's A Memorial of G. Brown Goode 1901 on GoogleBooks
- National Academy of Sciences Biographical Memoir