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more perfect. This great achievement has been rightly lauded by all 
Gould’s biographers; and although in later years there have been men 
who have undertaken hazardous explorations for the purpose of 
completing their knowledge of the natural history of a country, there 
have been none which produced such ample results. 
On his return to England, Gould at once recommenced the publication 
of his great work on the ‘ Birds of Australia,’ the first part of which 
appeared in 1840; and in 1848, the seven volumes, with their six 
hundred plates, were completed. No part of the work was more 
interesting than the account of the Petrels, a family of birds to which 
the author had devoted the greatest attention. While in Australia, 
Mrs. Gould lived for some time with Sir John and Lady Eranklin, and 
in Government House at Hobart Town their youngest son was born and 
named Eranklin Gould after their kind entertainers. Within a year of 
his return to England Gould had the misfortune to lose his wife, a shock 
from which he never entirely recovered, and his later years were 
further saddened by the loss of two of his sons, both of whom 
had adopted the medical profession. Dr. Henry Gould died in Sinde, 
and Dr. Eranklin Gould in the Bed Sea, on his way between Aden 
and Suez, on the 19th of March, 1873. The third son, Charles, occupied 
an important post in Australia as a Government Geologist, and retired 
shortly before his father’s death, since which date he has been travelling 
in China and Japan. 
After the death of Mrs. Gould, it was long before her husband 
could find a competent artist to supply her place; but he was at 
length fortunate enough to secure the services of Mr. Eichter, who 
was a skilful lithographer, and the work then progressed without 
interruption. Simultaneously he commenced the publication of a 
‘ Monograph of the Macropodidce, or Eamily of Kangaroos,’ which was 
begun in 1841 and finished in 1844, and in continuation of the 
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