wife and two promising boys affected him in a way hardly known
outside of his family circle.” I remember too when Mr. Prince was
ill, how Mr. Gould, though himself an invalid, used to drive out
himself every day to see his old friend and to carry with him. everyth
in g th a t he fancied would do good to the sufferer. As a man
of business he was most punctilious, making it a rule to pay for all
th e work directly it was delivered; and herein lay much of the
secret why he was so well served. H is artists, his lithographic
printers, his colourists, and his printers worked for him for years,
and the two la tte r seem never to have been changed throughout
his life. I once asked him what had been the secret of his success
in business, and he told me th a t he had always employed good
workmen and had always paid them well. “ You should never,”
said he, “ spend fifteen shillings u n til you have got a sovereign—
th en you will have five shillings to p u t by.” Shortly before his death
Mr. Gould had his p o rtra it painted twice. One of these pictures is in
th e possession of his eldest daughter, Mrs. Moon, and the other was
given to th e Linnean Society. To Mrs. Moon was bequeathed by will
his own complete set of his works, to be kept as a family heirloom.
In both of th e pictures, which were executed by Mr. Robertson,
th e na tu ra list is represented holding a Bird of Paradise in his hand.
He wished th a t when anyone should ask about th e picture, the reply
should be, “ This is Jo h n Gould, th e ‘B ird M a n and he would
have liked also to have had his epitaph w r itte n :—“ Here lies John
Gould, th e > Bird Man.’ ”
No one has excelled Mr. Gould in his appreciation of bird-life.
He was in every way a born ornithologist and knew and loved the
birds. He was always able to sketch, somewhat roughly perhaps, the
positions in which the birds were to be drawn upon th e plates, and no
one could have a b e tte r “ eye ” for specific differences. I t was always a
real pleasure to see th e delight which animated the old naturalist when,
in his invalid days, I took him some startlin g new form of bird, such
as Bulwer’s Pheasant, to be figured in his ‘Birds of Asia.’ On th e
la tte r occasion he exclaimed th a t there was only one man in th e world
who could do justice to such a splendid creature, and th a t was
Mr. Wolf, who a t his request a t once designed a beautiful picture,
which appeared in th e ‘Birds of Asia.’ Some of the finest of the
pictures of Raptorial birds in the ‘ Birds of Great B rita in ’ were also
drawn for Mr. Gould by Mr. Wolf.
W ith the exception of the ‘ Birds of Asia ’ and the ‘ Birds of New
Guinea,’ no record of th e dates when each species was published
appeared during Mr. Gould’s lifetime, bu t a most useful work on the
subject was published in 1885 by Mr. P . H. Waterhouse, the Librarian
to the Zoological Society of London ; this gives the dates of publication
of most of Gould’s works. I have already alluded to th e excellent
article by Count Salvadori on the “ Life and Work of Jo h n Gould,”
and by his permission I herewith add the list of the papers and memoirs
which the Count has appended to his biographical notice.
R. BOWDLER SHARPE.
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