Address by George Lincoln Goodale, President of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Delivered at the Washington Meeting, August, 1891
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George Lincoln Goodale was a botanist and educator. He developed a lecture method characterized by finish, dignity, and clarity.
Background
George Lincoln Goodale was the son of Stephen Lincoln Goodale and his wife, Prudence Aiken Nourse. He was born on August 3, 1839, in Saco, York County, Maine. There, in an atmosphere of Puritan restraint but of wholesome enjoyment, he grew up, acquiring a lively practical interest in a great variety of affairs.
Education
In 1860, Goodale graduated from Amherst College, where he had been associated with Edward Tuckerman, the foremost American student of lichens, and after a year as assistant in chemistry there, he entered upon the study of medicine, first in Portland, Maine, and then in the Harvard Medical School. While he was a medical student, he took part in the scientific survey of Maine authorized by the state legislature.
He received the degree of M. D. in 1863 from both Harvard and Bowdoin, and began to practise his profession in Portland.
The evidences of the confidence which he inspired include a number of honorary degrees from various universities, his election to the presidency of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1890).
Career
In 1869, in the interest of his health, Goodale took the long journey to California via Panama, returning to Maine not only restored in body, but with a broadened conception of the vegetation of the earth.
For four years, 1868-72, he taught in Bowdoin College and its medical department; and during this time, with C. F. Brackett, he founded and published (1870 - 72) the Bowdoin Scientific Review. By the publication of his first botanical papers in the reports of the state survey (1862 and 1863), he had attracted the attention of Dr. Asa Gray, and in 1872, he was called to Harvard as instructor in botany.
In this modest position his usefulness was so appreciated that larger opportunities came to him. In 1873, he became assistant professor and in 1878 was appointed full professor of botany; the following year there were added to his duties the curator- ship of the Botanical Museum and the Botanic Garden, which he held for thirty years; and in 1888, he succeeded Asa Gray as Fisher Professor of Natural History.
He developed a lecture method characterized by finish, dignity, and clarity; his elementary courses became popular both with students preparing to be professional botanists and with general audiences. He lectured at the Harvard Summer School, at the Lowell Institute, and at Cooper Union in New York, and was one of the first to illustrate his lectures by means of lantern slides.
By extensive travels to the sources of tea, coffee, sugar, rubber, and other plant products of economic importance, he made personal and professional acquaintance with the leaders in the related industries, convincing them of the mutual importance and value of botany and plant industry.
In 1909, he retired, becoming Fisher Professor Emeritus and honorary curator of the Botanical Museum, in which he continued to take an active interest until his death.
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To the hitherto almost exclusively taxonomic interest in plants, Goodale added interest in the morphological and physiological questions which have since so stimulated the study of nature.
Having seen plant physiology well started, he attempted similarly to arouse interest in economic botany and for the new Botanical Museum, completed in 1890, he made collections of specimens and of models designed to cultivate public interest in the practical as well as scientific aspects of plant life.
Membership
Goodale was a member in the National Academy of Sciences.
Connections
In December 1866, Goodale was married to Henrietta Juel Hobson of Saco. They had five children, only two of whom lived to maturity.