BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR. 
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off my brother-in-law’s, Mr. James Burrows’s, grounds at “The Elms,” 
which are situated on the upper part of the mill-stream at Cookham; 
and many a time, when we have been walking by the side of the 
river in the evening, we have seen the light of Mr. Gould’s cigar 
on Odney Common, where, after his wont, he was studying quietly 
the feeding-grounds of some trout. 
After I came to London I used to meet Mr. Gould continually at 
the Zoological Society’s meetings and also at his house, when he lent 
me many specimens of Kingfishers for my Monograph. In 1875 
he finished the second edition of his ‘Monograph of the Trogons,’ 
which he had begun in 1858, and he also commenced his ‘ Birds of 
New Guinea.’ By this time Mr. Gould had become somewhat of 
an invalid and his faithful secretary, Mr. Prince, had died, so that 
he often asked me to help him in the preparation of his works. 
Of the * Birds of New Guinea,’ eleven parts were finished at the 
time of his death, and I have since completed this and the ‘ Birds 
of Asia,’ as well as the Supplement to the ‘Monograph of the 
Humming-Birds,’ which Gould had commenced in 1880. A single 
part of a ‘Monograph of the Pittidce, or Ant-Thrushes of the Old 
World,’ which Mr. Gould brought out in the same year, is the only 
one of his works which has not been completed, the plates being in 
almost every case reproductions of those in the ‘ Birds of Asia,’ 
all the stones of these birds having been retained for a reproduction 
in a monograph. 
In manner Mr. Gould was always somewhat brusque, but those 
w r ho were intimate with him were aware that under a rough exterior 
he concealed a very kind heart. A friend who knew him well 
writes to me :—“ He had a really tender and affectionate heart, 
hidden though it was beneath a highly sensitive reserve, which never 
permitted him the relief of expression. The deaths of his loving 
