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GOULD, AUGUSTUS ADDISON (,8o5-1866)

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GOULD, See also:AUGUSTUS See also:ADDISON (,8o5-1866) , See also:American conchologist, was See also:born at New See also:Ipswich, New See also:Hampshire, on the 23rd of See also:April 18o5, graduated at Harvard See also:College in 1825, and took his degree of See also:doctor of See also:medicine in 183o. Thrown from boyhood on his own exertions, it was only by See also:industry, per-severance and self-denial that he obtained the means to pursue his studies. Establishing himself in See also:Boston, he devoted himself to the practice of medicine, and finally See also:rose to high professional See also:rank and social position. He became See also:president of the See also:Massachusetts Medical Society, and was employed in editing. the vital See also:statistics of the See also:state. As a conchologist 'his reputation is See also:world-wide, and he was one of the pioneers of the See also:science in See also:America. His writings fill many pages of the publications of the Boston Society of Natural See also:History (see vol. xi. p. 197 for a See also:list) and other See also:periodicals. He published with L. See also:Agassiz the Principles of See also:Zoology (2nd ed. 1851); he edited the Terrestrial and See also:Air-breathing Mollusks (x851-1855) of See also:Amos See also:Binney (1803-1847); he translated See also:Lamarck's Genera of Shells. The two most important monuments to his scientific See also:work, however, are See also:Mollusca and Shells (vol. xii., 1852) of the See also:United States exploring expedition (1838-1842) under See also:Lieutenant CharlesWilkes(1833), published by the See also:government, and the See also:Report on the Invertebrata published by See also:order of the legislature of Massachusetts in 1841. A second edition of the latter work was authorized in 1865,.and published in 187o after the author's See also:death, which took See also:place at Boston on the 15th of See also:September 1866.

Gould was a corresponding member of all the prominent American scientific See also:

societies, and of many of those of See also:Europe, including the See also:London Royal Society.

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