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expedition in 184G, and on those collected by Captain Ringgold and Cajitain Rogers in 1860. He was a felUnv of the American academy of arts and sciences, a member of the American philo- sophical societ}'. and of the National academy of sciences, one of the founders of the Boston soci- ety of natural ,*. history, and

president of ^T^T-f'if I! N rfflTftriiW--.' the Massachu- I'tts medical , .,.-iety, 1864-

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use of the registrar-general of IMassachusetts, and articles upon natural history subjects to many scientific periodicals, and published, among other works, a translation of Lamarck's Genera of Shells (1833); A Syxtcmof Katnral History (1833); Jieport on the Invcrtehrata of Massachnsetts (1841); Molhisca and Shells (1846); Principleiy of Zooloyy, in collaboration with Professor Agassiz (1848); edited and completed The Terrestrial Air-hreath- inrj Mollasks of the United States and Adjacent Ter- ritories of North America, by Dr. Amos Binney (1851-55); also published: Mollusea of the North J'aciflc Expedition (1860); and Otia Concholoyia (1863). He died in Boston, Mass., Sept. 15. 1866. QOULD, Benjamin, soldier, was born in Tops- field, Mass., Jlay 15, 1751; son of John and Esther (Giles) Gould; and grandson of Zaccheus and Elizabeth (Curtice) Goidd. His mother, Esther, before her marriage to John Gould, was the widow of Richard Bixby, and previousl}' of James Taylor, Jr. She was the daughter of John Giles of Salem. Benjamin Gould, with thirty minutemen from Topsfield under his com- mand, marched to Lexington, April 19, 1775, and in that fight received a wound that scarred his cheek through life. He was connnissioned cap- tain in the Continental army, and after the bat- tle of Bmiker Hill was the last man to cross Charlestown neck in retreat. He was present at the battles of White Plains, N.Y., Bennington, Vt., and Stillwater, N.Y., and commanded the main guard at West Point, N.Y., when Arnold fled after the capture of Andre. He removed from Lancaster to Topsfield in 1805 and thence to Newbury port in 1808. He was married July 19, 1781, to Griselda Apthorp, daughter of Ger- shom and Hannah Flagg, and of their ten chil- dren Benjamin Apthorp became a celebrated educator and merchant; and Hannah Flagg (1789-1865), author of The Golden Vase (1843); Mother's Dream (1853); and Ilijmns and Poems for Children (1854). Benjamin Gould died in New- buryport. Mass., May 30, 1841.

QOULD, Benjamin Apthorp, educator, was

born in Lanra.sler, Jlass.. June 15, 1787; son of Capt. Benjamin and Griselda Apthorp (Flagg) Gould. He was fitted for college at Dvmimer academy, Newburyport, Mass., and was graduated at Harvard A.B., 1814; A.M., 1817. He was head master of the Boston Latin school, 1814-28, making it the most famous preparatory school in the United States. He travelled in Europe for the benefit of his health, 1829-30, and on his re- turn engaged in the China and East India trade. He was married Dec. 2, 1823, to Lucretia Dana, daughter of Nathaniel Goddard of Boston. He was a fellow of the American academy of arts and sciences. He published The Prise Book (1820- 26); Adam's Latin Grammar (1825) and editions of Ovid, Horace and Virgil (1827-29). He died in Boston, Mass., Oct. 24, 1859.

QOULD, Benjamin Apthorp, astronomer, was born in Boston, Mass., Sept. 27, 1824; son of Benjamin Apthorp and Lucretia Dana (God- dard) Gould; and grandson of Benjamin Gould, soldier of the American Revolution. He was prepared for college at the Boston Latin school where he received the Franklin medal; was graduated at Harvard in 1844; was master of Roxbury Latin school, 1845; studied astronomy under Carl F. Gauss in Gottingen, and the sciences in Paris, doing observatory work under Francois Arago. While in Europe he made the acquaintance of Ar- gelander and Hum- boldt. He estab- lished the Astronomical Journal at Cambridge, Mass., in 1849, offering it to the use of astrono- mers for the publication exclusively of original investigations, and he maintained it largely at his own expense for twelve years. In 1885 he resumed its publication, and continued it at the rate of nearly one volume a year until his death, making due provision for its continuance. He was the first astronomer to use the telegraph in geodetic v\'ork, and made fifteen determinations before the method was introduced in Eurojie. In 1852 he was appointed to take charge of the longitude determinations of the coast survey. He organized, develoiaed and extended this sei'- vice, retiring in 1867. Meanwhile, in 1855, he be- came director of the Dudley observatory, Albany, N.Y., equipped and organized the institution, and carried it on without remuneration ami at

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