BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR. 
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remember her at work in the rooms of the Zoological Society in Bruton 
Street, where she and her husband lived, in the days when Laman 
Blanchard was Secretary to the Society, and Mr. N. Vigors, M.P., his 
brother-in-law, was one of its most arduous supporters. Mr. Gould 
never failed to tell his friends how deep was his debt of gratitude to the 
artistic aptitude and courageous devotion of his wife and fellow-traveller. 
She it was who gave form and colour to his 600 varieties of birds. It 
would grieve him could he know that this debt of his had been over¬ 
looked. 
“ I have the honour to remain, Sir, 
“ Your obedient Servant, 
“ Reform Club, Feb. 9/’ “ BLANCHARD JerR0LD.” 
The appreciation which Vigors felt for the talents of Mrs. Gould was 
shown by his naming a Sun-bird after her, Nectarinia gouldia , and his 
regard for her husband by his writing the letterpress for the ‘ Century.’ 
This work consisted of 80 plates only; but many of these illustrated 
both male and female of certain species, so that altogether 102 figures 
are given in the work. The males of V. gouldice and Vinago militaris 
being figured in two positions makes the total number of specimens 
illustrated exactly 100—hence the title of a £ Century.’ Of these, ninety 
specimens are said to have been given by Gould to the Museum of the 
Zoological Society, and ten were borrowed from other collections. Prom 
internal evidence I am able to account for five of the latter with 
certainty ; viz., Henicurus scouleri, Pyrrhula erythrocephala, and Ibido- 
rhynchus strnthersi , which were borrowed from the Glasgow Museum, 
and Pastor traillii from the Liverpool Museum. Falco chicquera and 
Plicenicornis peregrina may have been either in Sykes’s or Pranklin’s 
collection; and Otus bengalensis was probably taken from a drawing- 
belonging to the Hon. C. J. Shore, as Picusshorii certainly was. Vigors 
likewise says that some plates -were drawn from specimens in the 
Ashmolean Museum at Oxford, but I cannot find which they actually were. 
