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us in our progress, and it is to his name and fame at home and abroad, that we are very 

 largely indebted for what we most prize in our own. It is not we alone that suffer from his 

 death. His interests were broad and catholic and embraced whatever was good and excel- 

 lent, and his helping hand was not withdrawn whenever sought, whether in behalf of the 

 interests of science, education or hmuanity. The loss to these will be truly great. For all 

 his disinterestedness he was not without his reward. The profession of which he was so dis- 

 tinguished an ornament gladly bestowed upon him its highest gifts, and the community of 

 which he was so worthy a member gave love and honor for his many graces of character 

 and for liis work in life so full of christian excellence. With head and hand still busy and 

 with a heart still earnest in his chosen Avork and still warm in all his relations to friends 

 and kindred, it was God's will that he should pass away. The Society would express its 

 gratitude for the example of his life, and offers its deepest sympathy to those to whose 

 hearts his death brings so much sorrow." 



Dr. Wyman then stated that a more full notice of the scientific labors of Dr. Gould 

 would be presented by the committee at a later meeting. 



Dr. C. T. Jackson followed with remarks upon Dr. Gould's character and work, passing 

 in review the various stages of his scientific career ; and Mr. C. K. Dillaway read an 

 interesting autobiography of him which had been written in 1850, and which he had in his 

 possession as secretary of his college class. 



It was then voted that a copy of the notice of the committee be furnished to the press, 

 and that out of respect to the memory of our lamented friend and associate the Society 

 adjourn without the transaction of business or the hearing of scientific papers. 



A considerable portion of the obituary notice of Dr. Gould, prepared by Dr. Wyman in 

 behalf of the committee and published in the Proceedings of the Society, Volume IX, 

 page 188, is here given : 



Augustus Addison Gould was born in New Ipswich, New Hampshire, on Ihe 23d of April, 

 1805. His early life was passed there, and as soon as he was old and strong enough to 

 labor, the larger part of the year was given to his father's farm, and the rest to the common 

 school. At the age of fifteen he took the whole charge of the farm ; nevertheless a part 

 of the year was devoted to study, and some progress was made in the classics. By the 

 careful husbanding of the odds and ends of time and a year's teaching at an academy, he 

 was prepared to enter college, and entered at Cambridge in 1821. With his college life 

 came a struggle, the forerunner of many such by which his strength was to be tried. He 

 had already come to know something of the barrier which limited means had put between 

 himself and the things he aspired to, and now this assumed larger proportions, such as to 

 most persons would have been disheartening. College duties and exercises demanded his 

 time, nevertheless his education must be paid for, and he must do largely towards earning 

 the means ;• and so by strict economy, by performing various duties for which indigent 

 students received compensation, and also by hard work in vacations and on those days 

 which others gave to relaxation, he says he at length fought his way through, and attained 

 to respectable rank. 



In college he was noted among his classmates for industry, and it was there, too, that his 

 taste for natural history began to show itself He became familiar with the most of our 

 native plants and to the end of life never lost his love for them. After leaving college, he 



