GEORGE BROWN GOODE.

Born February 13, 1851. Died September 6, 1896.

It had been the intention of the Institution to place here a biography of its late Assistant Secretary, Dr. George Brown Goode, but on account of his special charge of the Museum it has been thought better to transfer this to the Museum volume, where an account of his scientific labors can be found at length. The Secretary, however, does not wish to leave without remark the page which contains this reference to one whose life was intimately associated not only with the Museum, but with the parent Institution, of which he was, as it were, a son, and where he was so greatly loved and trusted by all.

S. P. LANGLEY,

Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution.

FRANCIS AMASA WALKER.

By GEORGE F. HOAR and CARROLL D. WRIGHT.

I.—EXTRACTS FROM ORATION BY SENATOR GEORGE F. HOAR.'

We have come to pay a public debt, so far as we can pay such debts, to a public benefactor. Massachusetts has no orders of knighthood, no robes, or star, or jeweled ribbon of Bath or Garter, no coronet or crown for those who have served her. She gives them no title of rank or nobility. She endows them with no lands or castles to leave to those who bear their name. Their children must begin again, for themselves, by the side of the humblest and poorest, with no advantage but the stimulant of the father's example, and the feeling, if they be of noble mind, that the State holds a pledge of them. mausoleum, or cathedral, or abbey, like that-

"Where Death and Glory a joint Sabbath keep,"

We have no

to which Nelson looked forward on the morning of his death and his immortality. We do not consign the dust of the men we delight to honor to sleep the last sleep among rows of warriors and walks of kings. A simple Well done! coming from the heart of the people, takes, for us, the place of crown, and coronet, and rank, and title, and broad lands, and dome, and arch. Yet we should not be here to honor General Walker unless we knew that he would have preferred what we have to bring the esteem and love of Massachusetts, with the conscience that he deserved them, to all other honor, or wealth, or glory.

I do not purpose, in what I have to say to-night, to speak of Francis Walker as a man of great and remarkable original genius, as that word is commonly used. Whether he possessed or lacked that unde inable quality, it is not that which brings us here. It is because he was an admirable example, perhaps the best example Massachusetts has to offer in late years, of a complete and rounded citizenship. The excellence and variety of his work grow upon you as you study it. He was a more useful man and a safer guide than any man, with

'From oration by Senator Hoar at the memorial meeting at Boston Music Hall, October 14, 1897.