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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 pati'iotic 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 iS6i and 1863 and kindly 

 lent to the writer by a surviving relative. 



John Gould Anthoisty. 



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, 

 Alass., Oct. 16, 1S77. 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- 



