170 BENJAMIN APTHORP GOULD— COMSTOCK. 



To the record of this career there must be appended one further item. Through the sub- 

 sequent action of a daughter, Miss Alice Bache Gould, there was created and vested in the 

 National Academy of Sciences a trust fund of $20,000 to be known as the Benjamin Apthorp 

 Gould fund, the income from which is devoted, in perpetuity, to aid research in those branches 

 of astronomical science to which the father's career was related. His works do follow him. 



