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and president of the Massachusetts Medical Society in 1865, and 

 until his death. A brother was a member of the well-known 

 firm of Gould & Lincoln, publishers, and through them a number 

 of Dr. Gould's works were republished during his lifetime. It is 

 unnecessary to enumerate his works the mollusca of the Wilkes 

 exploring expedition, and the magnificent posthumous work on 

 American land shells, edited by Dr. Gould for the executors of 

 Amos Binney, would have given him lasting fame. But the work 

 which was most useful to American science was his classical 

 Report on the Invertebrata of Massachusetts, published by the 

 State in 1841, and adorned with fine copper-plates from his own 

 drawings. This was practically devoted to the mollusks, and 

 served as a manual for New England shells, excellent in every 

 way, and free from unnecessary technicality or pedantic expres 

 sions. The speaker well remembers the value this book had for 

 him in his boyish days, and it is said that to it Stimpson 

 owed the impulse which led him, in spite of obstacles, to devote 

 himself to science. 



Dr. Gould was tall, spare, with dark gray eyes, and hair orig 

 inally dark, but gray at the time I first knew him. He was the 

 ideal of the " Good Physician," w.ith a winning, sympathetic 

 manner ; quiet, and slightly reserved to strangers, but with a 

 living spring of gentle humor for his friends. Full of kindliness, 

 true piety, self-denial, and noble impulses, no one could know 

 him, in the midst of his interesting family, without loving and 

 honoring the man as well as admiring the scientist. The clear, 

 straightforward and exact quality of his work made it easy of 

 comprehension, and there is no knowing how many persons were 

 inspired by it to a study of the animals he described. He was 

 particularly able in his study of the smaller forms of land shells, 

 which he drew with wonderful accuracy and artistic taste. A 

 good portrait of Dr. Gould was published in the Annual of 

 Scientific Discovery for 1861 and afterward reprinted in the 



