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VIII > Author links: [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3101725) QID Q3101725 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Goodale, George Lincoln (1839-1923), American botanist and physician, born 3 Aug 1839 in Saco (York Co.), Maine, A.B. 1860 and M.A. (hon.) 1866 Amherst College, Amherst, Mass., M.D. 1863 Bowdoin College, Bowdoin, Maine and 1863 Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, Mass., practised medicine in Portland, Maine and taught in the Portland School for Medical Instruction 1863-1866, chair of natural science and chemistry, Bowdoin College 1867-1872, prof. of materia medica, Medical School of Maine 1868-1872, lecturer on vegetable physiology 1872-1873, asst. prof. 1873-1878, prof. of botany 1878-1909 (Fisher Prof. of Natural History 1888-1909) and dir. 1879-1909, Botanic Garden, all at Harvard Univ., responsible for the Botanical Museum of same and commissioned the "glass flowers" made by Leopold (1822-1895) and Rudolf Blaschka (1857-1929), retired 1909, Natl. Academy of Sciences, president, A.A.A.S. 1890-1891, LL.D. 1890 Amherst, 1890 Bowdoin and 1896 Princeton, president (and one of several founders), New England Botanical Club 1897-1899, died 12 Apr 1923 in Cambridge, Mass. **Abbreviated name**: *Goodale* #### Herbarium and types [[Collection GH|GH]]; Maine: [[Collection WELC|WELC]] (now [[Collection NY|NY]]). – Mss. at Harvard Univ., Cambridge, Mass., incl. Botanical Museum (Curatorial records), Gray Herb. (Administrative corr.) and Harvard Univ. Archives (papers George Lincoln Goodale). #### Bibliography and biography Amer. Men Sci. ed. 4: 262; Barnhart 2: 64; BL 1: 3, 184, 298; BM 2: 694; Bossert p. 147; CSP 15: 375; DAB 9: 231-232; Ewan Pap. p. 80; IH 2: 231; Jackson p. 552 (index); Kew 2: 442; Lenley p. 183; ME 1: 53, 3: 582 (index); Morren ed. 10: 122; NI 2: 70; NW p. 46 (index); PH p. 401 (index); Portr. 3: 490; Rehder 5(index): 331; Rhodora, index p. 331; TL-2/5, 2/6, Suppl. 1 (indices); Tucker 1: 285, 3: 121. #### Biofile - Ames, O., 1925. Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts. 59: 640-644. - Bailey, L.H., 1923. Rhodora 25: 117-120. (portr.) - Coulter, J.M., 1924. Bot. Gaz. 77: 453. (portr.) - Dörfler, I., 1896. Botaniker-Adressbuch: 195; 1902. Id., ed. 2: 251; 1909. Id., ed. 3: 331. - \[Engelmann, W.\], 1891. Botanisches Adressbuch: 129. - Ewan, J. (ed.), 1969. Short hist. bot. U.S.: 166. (index) - Jackson, R.T., 1923. Harvard Grad. Mag. 32: 54-59. (portr.) - Jones, G.N., 1966. An annotated bibl. Mexican ferns: 76. - Osterhout, W.J.V. et al., 1923. Amer. J. Sci., ser. 5, 6: 275-276. \[reprinted from Harvard Univ. Gazette, 16 Jun\] - Robinson, B.L., 1927. Mem. Natl. Acad. Sci. 21(6th Mem.): 1-19. (bibl., portr.) - Trelease, W., 1923. Science, n.s., 57: 654-656. - Warnement, J., 1997. Taxon 46: 649-660. - Wittrock, V.B., 1903. Acta Horti Berg. 3(2): 179; 1905. Id. 3(3): 195. #### Composite works - (1) Goodale and Rev. Joseph Blake (fl. 1868) prepared *The Portland catalogue of Maine plants*... 1868, which was reprinted, with omission of localities and separation of introduced species, from the Proc. Portland Soc. Nat. Hist. 1: 37-63, 127-138. 1862. *Copies*: US(2). – *Note*: M.L. Fernald was responsible for a second edition of the Portland catalogue in 1892 (see TL-2/Suppl. 7, nr. 34.299). - (2) Co-editor with Cyrus Fogg Brackett (1833-1915), *Bowdoin Scientific Review*, vols. \[1\]-2 (nrs. 1-51) (15 Feb 1870-17 Sep 1872). - (3) The reissue of A. Gray, *Bot. text*... ed. 6, 1885 (see TL-2/1, nr. 2122), also has on the t.p. "Part 2: Physiological botany by G.L. Goodale...." - (4) *Wild fl. Amer.*... \[1876-\]1880-1882\[-1894\] (TL-2/5, nr. 12.635) was treated earlier under its illustrator, Isaac Sprague. Issued in parts, the publication is more complicated than the earlier entry suggests. There is an 1876-1880, Salem \[Mass.\] (S.E. Cassino)/New York (Dodd Mead & Co.) imprint and an 1879-1880 \[© 1879\] subscription edition ("Sold only to subscribers for the whole work") with a Boston (S.E. Cassino) imprint. In addition, two imprints, both Boston (Bradlee Whidden), are the most commonly encountered ones; the first was issued in 1886 \[© 1879\] and the second 1894 \[© 1879\]. The BKL copy of the 1894 imprint is dated by pen "February 13th 1894". - (5) Watson, S. & G.L. Goodale, *List of the writings of Dr. Asa Gray*: *chronologically arranged*... Amer. J. Sci., ser. 3, 36 (App): 1-42. 1889, *see* Asa Gray (below). - (6) One of nine signatories to O. Ames et al., *Prop. changem. lois nom.*... 1904 (TL-2/ Suppl. 1, nr. 19.149), proposals submitted to the 1905 Vienna Congr. in opposition to the "American school of nomenclature". – *Note*: In TL-2, the exact same title is also treated under the final signatory, Roland Thaxter, and given a different abbreviation and number (TL-2/6, nr. 14.014). - (7) Associate editor (for botany) of the *American Journal of Science*, ser. 3. ### Publications ##### n.36.851. floras **Title** The *floras* of *different countries*... Cambridge, Mass. (University Press: John Wilson and Son) 1879. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1879, t.p. \[=p. 1\], p. \[3\]-12. *Copies*: HH (n.v.), LC (n.v.), MO. – Reprinted and to be cited from Bibliographical Contr. (Harvard Univ., Library), nr. 9. *Note*: "Republished from the Bulletin of the Library of Harvard University, numbers. 10, 11, and 12" \[on t.p.\]. ##### n.36.852. Concerning **Title** *Concerning* a few *common plants*... Boston (Published by the Society (i.e. Boston Society of Natural History)) 1879. 16-mo. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1879, p. \[1\]-61. *Copy*: (n.v.). – In series, Guides for science-teaching, nr. 2. *Ed. 2*: 1879 \[issued same year as ed. 1\] (p. 2 signed Feb 1879)... Boston (Published by the Society (i.e. Boston Society of Natural History)), p. \[1\]-61. *Copies*: BM (n.v.), HH. *Additional imprints* \[of Ed. 2\]: 1881,... *Copies*: HH(2), US (n.v.); 1885,... *Copy*: Cornell Univ. (n.v.); 1886 (p. 2 signed Feb 1879),... Boston (D.C. Heath & Co.), cover-t.p., p. \[1\]-61, \[I, advert.\]. *Copies*: LC (as pdf), NY (n.v.). *Electronic version*: LC (as pdf); 1893,... *Copy*: "at GS"; 1894,... *Copy*: (n.v.); 1896,... *Copy*: BKL (n.v.); 1903... *Copy*: NY (n.v.). ##### n.36.853. Address **Title** *Address* by George Lincoln *Goodale*, *president* of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Delivered at the Washington meeting, August, 1891... \[Salem, Mass.\] (Salem Press Publishing and Printing Co.) 1891. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1891, cover-t.p., t.p., p. \[1\]-38. *Copies*: HH (n.v.), K (n.v.), LC (n.v.), MO, NY (copy "With Compliments of the Author... ventures to ask his correspondents to send him any facts of interest regarding the local or exceptional uses of any plants,..."), US(2). *Note*: Caption title "Useful plants of the future. Some of the possibilities of economic botany"; p. \[1\] says "From the American Journal of Science vol. XLII, October, 1891". *Alternate issue*: Oct 1891 (cover-t.p. & in journal), *Useful plants* of the *future*. Some of the possibilities of economic botany... New Haven (Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor, printers), cover-t.p., p. \[i\], \[271\]-303. *Copies*: HH(2, one copy with loose slip as above, "With compliments of the Author...), LC (n.v.). – Reprinted and to be cited from Amer. J. Sci., ser. 3, 42(25): 271-303. 1891. *Note*: The title in the journal is simplified to "Some of the possibilities of economic botany". *Republication* (1): 1891... Some of the possibilities of economic botany... Rep. (Annual) Board Regents Smithsonian Inst. 1891: 617-646. 1891. *Copy*: HH (n.v.). *Republication* (2): Jul 1892 (in journal),... Address by George Lincoln Goodale. Useful plants of the future. – Some of the possibilities of economic botany... Proc. Amer. Assoc. Advancem. Sci. 40: 1-38. 1892. *Note*: Not having had all of the variations of this address in front of us at one time, we are uncertain as to whether or not changes were made apart from those of the title.