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G. Brown Goode

American zoologist
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George Brown Goode
Born:
February 13, 1851, New Albany, Indiana, U.S.
Died:
September 6, 1896, Washington, D.C. (aged 45)
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Smithsonian Institution
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G. Brown Goode (born February 13, 1851, New Albany, Indiana, U.S.—died September 6, 1896, Washington, D.C.) was an American zoologist who directed the scientific reorganization and recataloging of the collection at the National Museum of Natural History, Washington, D.C. After graduating from Wesleyan University at Middletown, Connecticut, he spent a year at Harvard University studying natural history under Louis Agassiz. Goode took charge of the Orange Judd Museum of Natural History from 1871 to 1877. In 1874 he became chief of the division of fisheries at the National Museum and in 1887 assistant secretary of the Smithsonian Institution in charge ...(100 of 167 words)

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