Augustus Addison Gould

GOULD, AUGUSTUS ADDISON Ameri can conchologist, was born in New Ipswich, N.H., on April 23, 18o5, and graduated at Harvard in medicine in 183o.

As a conchologist his reputation was world-wide. His writings fill many pages of the publications of the Boston Society of Natu ral History. He published with L. Agassiz the Principles of Zool ogy (2nd ed., 1851) ; he edited the Terrestrial and Air-breathing Mollusks (1851-55) of Amos Binney (1803-47)• The two most important monuments to his scientific work, however, are Mol lusca and Shells (vol. xii., 1852) of the U.S. exploring expedition (1838-42) under Lieut. Charles Wilkes (1833), published by the Government, and the Report on the Invertebrata of Massachusetts (1841) . He died in Boston on Sept. 15, 1866.

Among his other writings are:

The Study of Botany in Connection with Medicine (1835) ; Description of Shells (1848) ; The Naturalists' Library (1849) ; Animal Life in the Ocean at Great Depths (1862) ; Otia Conchologica (1863) ; Search out the Secrets of Nature (1885). See National Academy of Science, Biographical Memoirs, vol. v., pp. 91-113, and Bibliography, pp.