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It is impossible to do justice to such a life as Dr. Lea's in the 

 proper limits of an address of this sort. It is of the less impor 

 tance in the present case, because an excellent bibliography of his 

 works, preceded by a biographical sketch and an admirably 

 etched portrait, has been published by the U. S. National 

 Museum,* to whom Dr. Lea bequeathed his invaluable collec 

 tion of minerals and shells. 



AUGUSTUS ADDISON GOULD. 



Among those, next to Say, who have beneficially influenced 

 the study of mollusca in this country, and interested young 

 people in that pursuit, no name stands higher than that of 

 Augustus Addison Gould. He was born in New Ipswich, New 

 Hampshire, April 23, 1805, and died of cholera in Boston on the 

 1 5th of September, 1866. His father was originally named 

 Nathaniel Gould Duren, but, on account of an inheritance, re 

 versed the order of his surnames. The father was a musician, 

 artist, and engraver, noted for his elegant penmanship, and of a 

 good Chelmsford family ; but not in affluent circumstances. 

 From him Dr. Gould probably derived his facility as a delineator 

 of shells. In early life young Gould knew privation, but he per 

 severed in his endeavors for an education, and succeeded in car 

 rying himself through college, graduating at Harvard in 1825, 

 and in medicine in 1830. 



He devoted his energies largely to his profession, which he 

 regarded as the work of his life, and in which he soon rose to 

 deserved eminence. But natural science claimed his leisure 

 hours, and to increase them he often robbed himself of sleep. He 

 taught botany and zoology at Harvard for two years, was one of 

 the founders and earnest supporters of the Boston Society of 

 Natural History, and original member of the National Academy, 



* Bulletin No. 23, compiled by N. P. Scudder. 



