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shore, and died the following day. The dispatches announcing 

 his death bore testimony to his value as an officer. He was eulo 

 gized by Admiral Porter and his fellow officers of the flotilla. 



Those who knew Couthouy describe him as active and enthu 

 siastic, with reminders of his French ancestry in his physiognomy 

 and manner ; of middle height, dark complexion, and more trim 

 in his dress and refined in his ways than would have been ex 

 pected from one who had always followed the sea. One friend 

 says of him : " As brave and gallant a soul as ever trod a deck, 

 and a lively and always entertaining companion." 



I am informed that he left a son, Joseph P., and two daughters 

 in Boston, and the family is not extinct there. His signature to 

 some documents at the Navy Department is in a handsome flow 

 ing hand. He was a good linguist, speaking Spanish, French, 

 Italian, and Portuguese with fluency, and had even mastered sev 

 eral dialects used among the Pacific Islands. 



I have not yet come on the track of any published portrait of 

 Couthouy, and none of the biographical dictionaries or cyclope 

 dias refer to him. I have therefore gone into detail a little more 

 fully than I should otherwise have done to preserve from oblivion 

 the memory of a patriotic officer and a good conchologist. 



The sketch portrait which accompanies these notes, in default 

 of a better, was derived from an unsatisfactory photograph, the 

 only thing available, taken between 1861 and 1863 and kindly 

 lent to the writer by a surviving relative. 



JOHN GOULD ANTHONY. 



A naturalist who has left his mark on the classification of our 

 fresh-water shells was John Gould Anthony, who was born in 

 Providence, Rhode Island, May 17, 1804, and died in Cambridge, 

 Mass., Oct. 16, 1877. Mr. Anthony had few educational advan 

 tages, leaving school at the age of twelve years, and, going to 

 Cincinnati, engaged in business, where he continued for thirty- 



