XXIV 
BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR. 
wife and two promising boys affected him in a way liardly known 
outside of his family circle.” I remember too when Mr. Prince was 
ill, how Mr. Gould, though himself an invalid, used to drive out 
himself every day to see his old friend and to carry with him. every¬ 
thing that he fancied would do good to the sufferer. As a man 
of business he was most punctilious, making it a rule to pay for all 
the work directly it was delivered; and herein lay much of the 
secret why he was so well served. His artists, his lithographic 
printers, his colourists, and his printers worked for him for years, 
and the two latter seem never to have been changed throughout 
his life. I once asked him what had been the secret of his success 
in business, and he told me that he had always employed good 
workmen and had always paid them well. “ You should never,” 
said he, “ spend fifteen shillings until you have got a sovereign— 
then you will have five shillings to put by.” Shortly before his death 
Mr. Gould had his portrait painted twice. One of these pictures is in 
the possession of his eldest daughter, Mrs. Moon, and the other was 
given to the Linnean Society. To Mrs. Moon was bequeathed by will 
his own complete set of his works, to be kept as a family heirloom. 
In both of the pictures, which were executed by Mr. Robertson, 
the naturalist is represented holding a Bird of Paradise in his hand. 
He wished that when anyone should ask about the picture, the reply 
should be, “This is John Gould, the ‘ Bird Man' "; and he would 
have liked also to have had his epitaph written :—“ Here lies John 
Gould, the ‘ Bird Man.’ ” 
No one has excelled Mr. Gould in his appreciation of bird-life. 
He was in every way a born ornithologist and knew and loved the 
birds. He was always able to sketch, somewhat roughly perhaps, the 
positions in which the birds were to be drawn upon the plates, and no 
one could have a better “ eye ” for specific differences. It was always a 
real pleasure to see the delight which animated the old naturalist when, 
