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curators: 



THOMAS T. BOUVE, Mineralogt. 



THOMAS M. 15KEVVEK, M.D., Ornithology; (Nests and Eggs). 



JAMES C. WHITE, M.D., MA.MiMALOGY and Comp. Anatomy. 



SAMUEL H. SCUDDER, Entomology. 



FRED. W. I'UTNAM, Iciithtology. 



B. JOY JEFFRIES, M.D., MiCKOscoPY. 



ALPHEUS HYATT, Palaeontology. 



A. S. PACKARD, JR., M.D., Cecstacea. 



ADDISON E. VERRILL, Radiata. 



HORACE MANN, Botany. 



BrRT G. WILDER, M. D., Herpetologt. 



WILLIAM T. BRIGHAM, Geology. 



J. ELLIOT CABOT, Ornithology. 



EDWARD S. MORSE, Conchology. 



Dr. Jeffries Wyman, on behalf of the Committee appointed 

 to prepare an account of the life and scientific career of the 

 late Dr. A. A. Gould, i-ead the following notice : — 



Augustus Addison Gould was born in New Ipswich, 'New 

 Hampshire, on the 23d of April, 1805, among the high hills 

 and under the shade of one more prominent than the rest, 

 which helped to form what he calls the amphitheatre that 

 surrounds the town. His early life was j^assed there, and as 

 soon as he was old and strong enough to labor the larger 

 part of the year was given to his flither'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 



