1867.] 197 [Annual Keport. 



ever personal enjoyment came from this soni'ce, it was always 

 enhanced if others partook of it with him. There are too 

 many naturalists who stand in the presence of nature all 

 their days, but see her not. To them the world offers 

 nothing but the forms they would technically describe and 

 arrange in their cabinets. Take away this object and all be- 

 comes a Avaste, for they are neither warmed nor enlivened 

 by the world around them. Not so Avith our associate*; 

 no one toiled more industriously than he over individual 

 forms and specific descriptions ; but all this aside, every aspect 

 of nature touched him to the innermost. Those who have 

 been intimate Avitli him know how his face would light up 

 while in the presence of the least as well as of the greatest 

 natural objects! the flower of a day, or the sturdy tree that 

 had knoAvn its centuries of life, the quiet or the grander scenes 

 of the world. His emotions were not those of an enthusiast, 

 but rather came of a clear perception and calm contempla- 

 tion of the things around him, and of his own resj^onsive na- 

 ture. 



His life, all too poorly and inadequately represented in this 

 sketch, Avas throughout a consistent one, and to the end each 

 day was full to the round. He was still endeavoring to im- 

 pi'ove what had been done before, and looking forward to 

 the accomplishment of ncAV and better ends, when suddenly it 

 was closed. He had been less Avell than usual ; on the after- 

 noon of September 14th, 18G6, he manifested the usual symp- 

 toms of an attack of Asiatic cholera, soon after fell into a 

 state of collapse, and on the folloAving morning just before 

 the dawn, he died. 



For the following chronological catalogue of Dr. Gould's 

 communications, I am indebted to Mr. Samuel H. Scudder, 

 Secretary of the Society. 



Lamarck's Genera of Shells Avith a Catalogue of Species. Trans- 

 lated from the French. . 16mo. Boston, 1833. 



On the Cicindelas of Massachusetts. Bost. Journ. of Nat. Hist., z. 

 Art. iv, pp. 41-55, Plate 3. 



Report on the Geology, Mineralogy, Botany and Zoology of Mas- 

 sachusetts, made and published by order of the gOA-ernment of that 



