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and spare, with dark hair and dark grey e3^es, his countenance full of 

 character and benevolence. When greeting others in whom he was 

 interested, especially young students, his face had a winning expres- 

 sion not to be forgotten" (Dall, 1905, p. 104). It is not surprising 

 that Dall remembered the good Doctor thus, for in 1863, when Dall 

 was 18 years old, he had gone to call on Dr. Gould, as had William 

 Stimpson some years before. He too received every encouragement 

 and Dr. Gould presented his name to the Boston Society of Natural 

 History, where he was admitted as a student member and excused 

 from fees. 



On the afternoon of September 14, 1866, Dr. Gould suffered an 

 attack of Asiatic cholera and the following morning before dawn, he 

 was dead. He was buried in Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, 

 Massachusetts, not far from his friend Amos Binney. 



The following excerpt from a letter of Julia N. Gould to W. H. 

 Dall, dated March 22, 1918, is a fitting summary of Dr. Gould's 

 life: 



Among my father's writings not for the public eye — I find the follow- 

 ing: "I have risen by industry and self-denial from the rude mountain 

 farmer boy to a notable standing in an honorable profession in a large 

 city, and from association with rustics have come to be an associate 

 with the most scientific men of the day both home and abroad." 



Disposition of the Gould Shell Collection 



At Dr. Gould's death, his collection of " sixty thousand specimens" 

 was not placed, as had been expected, in the Boston Society of Natural 

 History, where Gould had labored so long and with such zeal. Instead, 

 it was sold for $6,000 in 1867 to the New York State Museum in 

 Albany, New York. The supposed types of 362 species were separated 

 as "The Gould Type Collection," placed in glass-topped boxes, and 

 deposited in the director's office. A list of this collection was pub- 

 lished in the Twenty-seventh Annual Report of the New York State 

 Museum (1875, pp. 47-55). 



In this portion of the collection the present author has been able to 

 locate a number of Dr. Gould's figured or measured holo types. Some 

 of the lots proved not to be types and a few were syn types of John 

 Gundlach's Cuban shells, but the majority were as represented. 

 Through the kindness of Dr. W. N. Fenton, Director of the New York 

 State Museum, this portion of the collection was placed on permanent 

 loan in 1959 with the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Cambridge, 

 Massachusetts. The remainder of the Gould collection of some 

 10,000 lots, as well as the rest of the New York State Museum col- 



