Augustus Addison Gould

Augustus Addison Gould ( born April 23 1805 in New Ipswich, New Hampshire, † September 15, 1866 in Boston, Massachusetts) was an American Conchologe and malacologist.

1825 became Gould graduated from Harvard College and received his doctorate in medicine in 1830. In Boston settled, he devoted himself to the practice of medicine and eventually became a high social rank and reputation as an expert in medicine. He became president of the Massachusetts Medical Society, and led through the births and deaths of the state book.

As Conchologe he held world-wide prestige and was one of the pioneers of American science. His writings fill many pages of the publications of the Boston Society of Natural History (Issue XI, page 197 contains a list ) and other magazines. Together with Louis Agassiz, he published The Principles of Zoology (2nd edition 1851), edited The Terrestrial and Airbreathing Mollusks ( 1851-1855 ) of Amis Binney and translated Lamarck Gerea of Shells ( 1833).

His two most important scientific work Mollusca and Shells ( XII edition, 1852) and The Report on the Invertebrata (1841 ). Gould was a corresponding member of all the prominent American scientific societies, as well as many in Europe, including the Royal Society in London.