Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution (Volume 1914)

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1898-01-01. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... George Brown Goode. Born February 13, 1851. Died September 0, 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 sou, 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 HT SENATOR GEORGE F. HOAR.1 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. We have no mausoleum, or cathedral, or abbey, like that-- Whore Death and Glory a joint Sabbath keep, 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 fr...