Editing Augustus Addison Gould (section)

==Biography==
Born in [[New Ipswich, New Hampshire]], he was the son of music teacher Nathaniel Duren Gould (1781–1864) who was also noted for his penmanship.<ref name="EB1911">{{harvnb|Chisholm|1911}}</ref><ref name="Wyman 1903">{{Cite book |last=Wyman |first=Jeffries |date=1903-04-22 |url=https://www.nasonline.org/publications/biographical-memoirs/memoir-pdfs/gould-augustus.pdf |title=Biographical memoir of Augustus Addison Gould 1805–1866 |publisher=[[National Academy of Sciences]] |pages=91–113 |archive-date=May 14, 2024 |access-date=March 5, 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240514053007/https://www.nasonline.org/publications/biographical-memoirs/memoir-pdfs/gould-augustus.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref>

===Physician===
He graduated from [[Harvard College]] in 1825, and took his degree of doctor of medicine in 1830. "Establishing himself in [[Boston]], he devoted himself to the practice of medicine, and finally rose to high professional rank and social position. He became president of the [[Massachusetts Medical Society]], and was employed in editing the [[vital statistics (government records)|vital statistics]] of the state."<ref name="EB1911"/> In 1849, he was elected as a member of the [[American Philosophical Society]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=APS Member History |url=https://search.amphilsoc.org/memhist/search?creator=gould;smode=advanced;f1-date=1849 |access-date=2025-03-05 |website=search.amphilsoc.org}}</ref> In 1855 he delivered the annual address at the [[Massachusetts Medical Society]], entitled "Search Out the Secrets of Nature." He was its president from 1864 until his death. In 1856, he was appointed visiting physician to the [[Massachusetts General Hospital]].

===Naturalist===
"As a [[Conchology|conchologist]] his reputation was worldwide, and he was one of the pioneers of the science in America. His writings fill many pages of the publications of the ''[[Boston Society of Natural History]]'' (see vol. xi. p. 197 for a list) and other periodicals. He published with [[Louis Agassiz]] the ''Principles of Zoology'' (2nd ed. 1851)."<ref name="EB1911"/>  He taught [[botany]] and [[zoology]] at Harvard for two years. When [[Charles Lyell]] visited the United States in order to pursue his [[Geology|geological]] investigations, he immediately sought the aid of Gould as a co-worker.

"Gould edited ''The terrestrial air-breathing mollusks of the United States, and the adjacent territories of North America''&nbsp;– ''[https://archive.org/details/terrestrialairbr185101binn Volume 1]'' (1851–1855) of [[Amos Binney]] (1803–1847). He translated [[Jean-Baptiste Lamarck|Lamarck]]'s ''Genera of Shells'' (1833)."<ref name="EB1911"/>

"The two most important monuments to his scientific work, however, are ''Mollusca and Shells'' (vol. xii, 1852) of the [[United States Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842]] under [[Charles Wilkes|Lieutenant Charles Wilkes]], published by the government, and the ''Report on the Invertebrata'' published by order of the legislature of [[Massachusetts]] in 1841. A second edition of the latter work was authorized in 1865, and published in 1870 after the author's death.
In 1860, Gould also reported on shells collected by the [[North Pacific Exploring and Surveying Expedition]]."<ref name="EB1911"/>

"Gould was a corresponding member of all the prominent American scientific societies, and of many of those of Europe, including the London [[Royal Society]]."<ref name="EB1911"/>

He died in Boston on September 15, 1866, and was buried at [[Mount Auburn Cemetery]].<ref name="Wyman 1903"/>