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{{Short description|English ornithologist (1804–1881)}}
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| name              = John Gould
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| image             = John Gould. Photograph. Wellcome V0026466.jpg
| birth_date        = {{birth date|df=yes|1804|9|14}}
| birth_place       = [[Lyme Regis]], England
| death_date        = {{death date and age|df=yes|1881|2|3|1804|9|14}}
| death_place       = London, England
| resting_place     = Kensal Green cemetery
| spouse            = [[Elizabeth Gould (illustrator)|Elizabeth Coxen]]
| children          = [[Charles Gould (geologist)|Charles Gould]]
| field             = [[Ornithology]]
| work_institutions = [[Zoological Society of London]]
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| known_for         = Illustrated monographs on birds, identification of Darwin's finches
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'''John Gould''' {{Post nominals|country=GBR|FRS}} ({{IPAc-en|g|uː|l|d}}; 14 September 1804 – 3 February 1881<ref>{{cite DNB|wstitle=Gould, John|volume=22|pages=287–8}}</ref>) was an English [[ornithologist]] who published monographs on birds, illustrated by plates produced by his wife, [[Elizabeth Gould (illustrator)|Elizabeth Gould]], and several other artists, including [[Edward Lear]], [[Henry Constantine Richter]], [[Joseph Wolf]] and [[William Matthew Hart]]. Because of his 1840s seven-volume series ''[[The Birds of Australia (Gould)|The Birds of Australia]]'' and its updates he has been considered the father of bird study in Australia, and the [[Gould League]] in Australia is named after him. His identification of the birds now nicknamed "[[Darwin's finches]]" played a role in the [[inception of Darwin's theory]] of [[evolution]] by [[natural selection]]. Gould's work is referenced in [[Charles Darwin]]'s book, ''[[On the Origin of Species]]''.

== Early life ==
John Gould was born in [[Lyme Regis]], the first son of a gardener. Both father and son probably had little education. After working on Dowager Lady Poulett's glass house,  his father obtained a position on an estate near [[Guildford]], Surrey. In 1818, Gould Snr became foreman in the Royal Gardens of Windsor. Gould became an apprentice for 6 years under the care of J. T. Aiton, of the Royal Gardens of Windsor from the age of 14  to 20 years old.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Russell|first=Roslyn|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=71qYuhz9FM8C&dq=john+gould+Guildford,+Surrey&pg=PA7|title=The Business of Nature: John Gould and Australia|date=2011|publisher=National Library Australia|isbn=978-0-642-27699-5|pages=7–8|language=en}}</ref> The young Gould started training as a gardener. Employed under his father at Windsor from 1818 to 1824, he was then a gardener at [[Ripley Castle]] in [[Yorkshire]]. He became an expert in the art of [[taxidermy]]. In 1824 he set himself up in business in London as a taxidermist. His skill helped him to become the first curator and preserver at the museum of the [[Zoological Society of London]] in 1827.<ref name=waterhouse/><ref name=russell>{{cite book |author=Russell, Roslyn |title=The business of nature : John Gould and Australia |year=2011 |location=Canberra |publisher=National Library of Australia |isbn=9780642276995}}</ref>

== Research and works published ==
[[File:Calliope Tschebaiswi Prjer (Thrush Family) by John Gould.jpg|thumb|left|upright|''Calliope Tschebaiswi Prjer (Thrush Family)'' by John Gould]]

Gould's position brought him into contact with the country's leading naturalists. This meant that he was often the first to see new collections of birds given to the Zoological Society of London. In 1830 a collection of birds arrived from the [[Himalayas]], many not previously described. Gould published these birds in ''[[A Century of Birds from the Himalaya Mountains]]'' (1830–1832). The text was by [[Nicholas Aylward Vigors]] and the illustrations were drawn and [[lithograph]]ed by Gould's wife [[Elizabeth Gould (illustrator)|Elizabeth Coxen Gould]]. Most of Gould's work were rough sketches on paper from which other artists created the lithographic plates.<ref>{{cite journal | author=Stephens, M. | year=2005 | title=Patterns of Nature: The Art of John Gould at the National Library | journal= National Library of Australia News | volume= 15 | issue=7| pages=7–10|url=http://www.nla.gov.au/pub/nlanews/2005/apr05/story-2.pdf}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal | author=Cayley, N. | year=1938 | title=John Gould as an Illustrator | journal= Emu | volume= 38 | pages=167–172 | doi=10.1071/MU938167 | issue=2| bibcode=1938EmuAO..38..167C }}</ref>

This work was followed by four more in the next seven years, including ''Birds of Europe'' in five volumes.<ref>{{cite book | author=Gould, John | year=1832–1837 | title=The Birds of Europe | publisher= John Gould, London | url=http://library.sl.nsw.gov.au/record=b2588346~S2}}</ref> It was completed in 1837; Gould wrote the text, and his clerk, Edwin Prince, did the editing. The plates were drawn and lithographed by Elizabeth Coxen Gould. A few of the illustrations were made by [[Edward Lear]] as part of his ''Illustrations of the Family of Psittacidae'' in 1832. Lear, however, was in financial difficulty, and he sold the entire set of lithographs to Gould. The books were published in a very large size, imperial folio, with magnificent coloured plates. Eventually 41 of these volumes were published, with about 3000 plates. They appeared in parts at £3 3s. a number, subscribed for in advance, and in spite of the heavy expense of preparing the plates, Gould succeeded in making his ventures pay, realising a fortune.<ref name=waterhouse>{{cite book | author= Waterhouse, F H | year=1885 | title=The dates of publication of some of the Zoological Works of the late John Gould | publisher= R H Porter, London | url=https://archive.org/stream/datesofpublicati00wate#page/n14/mode/1up}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal | author=Sauer, G C | title=Forty years association with John Gould the Bird Man | journal=Archives of Natural History | volume=1 | issue=1|doi=10.3366/anh.1985.013 | pages= 159–166| year=1985 }}</ref> This was a busy period for Gould who also published ''Icones Avium'' in two parts containing 18 leaves of bird studies on 54&nbsp;cm plates as a supplement to his previous works.<ref name=Gould>{{cite book | author=Gould, John | year=1837 | title=Icones Avium | publisher= Richard and John E. Taylor, London | url=https://primo-slnsw.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/primo-explore/fulldisplay?docid=SLNSW_ALMA21149604610002626&context=L&vid=SLNSW&lang=en_US&search_scope=EEA&adaptor=Local%20Search%20Engine}}</ref> No further monographs were published as in 1838 he and his wife moved to Australia to work on the ''Birds of Australia''. Shortly after their return to England, his wife died in 1841. Elizabeth Gould completed 84 plates for ''Birds of Australia'' before her death.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://exhibits.lib.ku.edu/exhibits/show/gould/about/elizabeth_gould|title=Elizabeth Gould · John Gould: Bird Illustration in the Age of Darwin · KU Libraries Exhibits|website=exhibits.lib.ku.edu|access-date=27 December 2018}}</ref>

== Work with Darwin ==
[[File:JohnGould1860.jpg|thumb|upright|A studio photograph ({{Circa|1860}})]]
[[File:John Gould Zoology of the Voyage of the Beagle Pyrocephalus nanus.jpg|thumb|The Zoology of the voyage of H.M.S. Beagle : under the command of Captain Fitzroy, R.N., during the years 1832 to 1836, edited and superintended by Charles Darwin. [Album view] Pl. no. 7, Pyrocephalus nanus held by the State Library of New South Wales digital reference number a1417005h]]

When [[Charles Darwin]] presented his mammal and bird specimens collected during the [[second voyage of HMS Beagle|second voyage of HMS ''Beagle'']] to the [[Zoological Society of London]] on 4 January 1837, the bird specimens were given to Gould for identification. He set aside his paying work and at the next meeting on 10 January reported that birds from the [[Galápagos Islands]] which Darwin had thought were blackbirds, "gross-bills" and [[finch]]es were in fact ''"a series of ground Finches which are so peculiar"'' as to form ''"an entirely new group, containing 12 species."'' This story made the newspapers. In March, Darwin met Gould again, learning that his Galápagos "wren" was another species of finch and the [[mockingbird]]s he had labelled by island were separate species rather than just varieties, with relatives on the South American mainland. Subsequently, Gould advised that the smaller southern [[Rhea (bird)|Rhea]] specimen that had been rescued from a Christmas dinner was a separate species which he named ''Rhea darwinii'', whose territory overlapped with the northern rheas.  Darwin had not bothered to label his finches by island, but others on the expedition had taken more care. He now sought specimens collected by captain [[Robert FitzRoy]] and crewmen. From them he was able to establish that the species were unique to islands, an important step on the [[inception of Darwin's theory|inception of his theory]] of [[evolution]] by [[natural selection]]. Gould's work on the birds was published between 1838 and 1842 in five numbers as Part 3 of ''[[Zoology of the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle]]'', edited by Charles Darwin. Elizabeth Gould illustrated all the plates for Part 3.<ref>{{cite journal|author=Sulloway, F J |year=1982 |title=The ''Beagle'' collections of Darwin's finches (Geospizinae) |journal=Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Zoology Series |volume=43 |issue=2 |pages=49–94 |url=http://darwin-online.org.uk/pdf/1982_SullowayFinches_A86.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120516072905/http://darwin-online.org.uk/pdf/1982_SullowayFinches_A86.pdf |archive-date=16 May 2012 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|author=Sulloway, F J | year=1982| title= Darwin and his finches: the evolution of a legend | journal= Journal of the History of Biology | volume= 15 | pages=1–53 | url=http://www.sulloway.org/Finches.pdf | doi=10.1007/BF00132004| citeseerx=10.1.1.458.3975| s2cid=17161535}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Ashley|first=Melissa|date=2013|title=Elizabeth Gould, Zoological Artist 1840–1848: Unsettling Critical Depictions of John Gould's 'Laborious Assistant' and 'Devoted Wife'|journal=Hectate|volume=39|pages=101–122|via=<!-- EBSCO --><!-- Needs EBSCO url -->}}</ref>

== Research in Australia ==
[[File:Platypus-sketch.jpg|left|thumb|[[Platypus]] from ''The Mammals of Australia'' (1845–63)]]
[[File:Letter to R. Denny.jpg|thumb|upright|right|Letter from John Gould to R. Denny regarding Australian plants]]
In 1838 the Goulds sailed to Australia, intending to study the birds of that country and be the first to produce a major work on the subject. They took with them the collector [[John Gilbert (naturalist)|John Gilbert]]. They arrived in [[Tasmania]] in September, making the acquaintance of the governor [[John Franklin|Sir John Franklin]] and his [[Jane Griffin (Lady Franklin)|wife]]. Gould and Gilbert collected on the island. In February 1839 Gould sailed to Sydney, leaving his pregnant wife with the Franklins. He travelled to his brother-in-law's station at Yarrundi,<ref>[http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/coxen-charles-3281 Biography – Charles Coxen – Australian Dictionary of Biography]. Yarrundi was a property on Dart Brook near [[Scone, New South Wales]].</ref> spending his time searching for [[bowerbird]]s in the [[Liverpool Range]]. In April he returned to Tasmania for the birth of his son. In May he sailed to [[Adelaide]] to meet [[Charles Sturt]], who was preparing to lead an expedition to the [[Murray River]]. Gould collected in the [[Mount Lofty]] range, the Murray Scrubs and [[Kangaroo Island]], returning again to [[Hobart]] in July. He then travelled with his wife to Yarrundi. They returned home to England in May 1840.

The result of the trip was ''[[The Birds of Australia (Gould)|The Birds of Australia]]'' (1840–48), a seven volume work which is the first comprehensive illustrated account of Australian birds.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://collections.museumsvictoria.com.au/items/1692635 |title=Rare Book – Gould, John, The Birds of Australia Vol.IV, London, 1848 |website=Museums Victoria Collections |publisher=Museums Victoria |access-date=6 May 2020}}</ref> It included a total of 600 plates in seven volumes; 328 of the species described were new to science and named by Gould. He also published ''A Monograph of the Macropodidae, or Family of Kangaroos'' (1841–1842) and the three-volume work ''[[The Mammals of Australia]]'' (1849–1861).<ref name="NLA">{{cite web|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-vn3075907 | title=Mammals of Australia, key plates [picture] | work=Digital collections | publisher=National Library of Australia | access-date=1 November 2008}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal | url=http://www3.slv.vic.gov.au/latrobejournal/issue/latrobe-02/t1-g-t1.html | journal=The La Trobe Journal | year=1968 | issue=2 | volume=1 | pages=17–31 | title=Collections of John Gould Manuscripts and Drawings | author=McEvey, Allan}}</ref>

Elizabeth died in 1841 after the birth of their eighth child, Sarah, and Gould's books subsequently used illustrations by a number of artists, including [[Henry Constantine Richter]], [[William Matthew Hart]] and [[Joseph Wolf]].

Even after leaving Australia, John Gould corresponded with many scientists and collectors in the colonies, including [[Frederick McCoy]], who was the director of the [[Museums Victoria|National Museum of Victoria]] from 1857 to 1899. These letters detail the sale of specimens, including mammals, insects, shells, and bird skins for the museum's collections, and copies of Gould's scientific publications for the museum library. Gould insisted that any species of birds that were at that time new to Western science be forwarded to him in London to be described and figured.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Fleming|first=Anthea|date=2001|url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/124069#page/214/mode/1up|title=Birds, books and money: McCoy's correspondence with John Gould (1857–1876)|journal=The Victorian Naturalist|volume=118|issue=5|pages=210–218|access-date=27 April 2020}}</ref>

[[File:John Gould, Phaethornis Pretrei (hummingbird).jpg|thumbnail|right|''Phaethornis Pretrei'', the [[Planalto Hermit]], [[Brooklyn Museum]]]]

==Hummingbirds==
Throughout his professional life, Gould had a strong interest in [[hummingbird]]s. He accumulated a collection of 320 species, which he exhibited at the [[Great Exhibition]] of 1851.<ref>{{cite book | title=A guide to the Gould collection of Humming-birds | year=1885 | publisher=British Museum (Natural history) | edition=4 | author=Anon | url=https://archive.org/details/guidetogouldcoll85brit}}</ref> Despite his interest, Gould had never seen a live hummingbird. In May 1857, he travelled to the United States with his second son, [[Charles Gould (geologist)|Charles]]. He arrived in New York too early in the season to see hummingbirds in that city, but on 21 May 1857, in Bartram's Gardens in [[Philadelphia]], he finally saw his first live one, a [[ruby-throated hummingbird]]. He then continued to Washington D.C. where he saw large numbers in the gardens of the Capitol. Gould attempted to return to England with live specimens, but, as he was not aware of the conditions necessary to keep them, they only lived for two months at most.

== ''Birds of Great Britain'' ==
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[[The University of Glasgow]], which owns a copy of ''Birds of Great Britain'', describes John Gould as "the greatest figure in bird illustration after [[John James Audubon|Audubon]]. Gould was not directly responsible for the illustrations himself, although he supervised their production closely."<ref name="gla.ac.uk">{{cite web|url=http://www.gla.ac.uk/services/specialcollections/virtualexhibitions/birdsbeesandblooms/birds/johngouldthebirdsofgreatbritain/|title=University of Glasgow – MyGlasgow – Special collections – Virtual Exhibitions – Birds, Bees and Blooms – Birds – John Gould: The Birds of Great Britain|website=Gla.ac.uk|access-date=17 September 2017}}</ref> London booksellers [[Sotheran's|Henry Sotheran Ltd]] describe the work as "Gould's pride and joy".<ref name="auto">{{cite web|url=http://www.sotherans.co.uk/Prints/gould/britain.php|title=Henry Sotheran's – Birds of Great Britain|website=Sotherans.co.uk|access-date=17 September 2017}}</ref>

Gould had already published some of the illustrations in ''Birds of Europe'', but ''Birds of Great Britain'' represents a development of an aesthetic style in which illustrations of nests and young are added on a large scale.

Sotheran's<ref name="auto"/> reports that Gould published the book himself, producing 750 copies, which remain sought after both as complete volumes, and as individual plates, currently varying in price from £450 – £850.  The University of Glasgow records that the volumes were issued in London in 25 parts, to make the complete set, between 1863 and 1873, and each set contained 367 coloured lithographs.

Gould undertook an ornithological tour of Scandinavia in 1856, in preparation for the work, taking with him the artist [[Henry Wolf (engraver)|Henry Wolf]] who drew 57 of the plates from Gould's preparatory sketches. According to The University of Glasgow<ref name="gla.ac.uk"/> Gould's skill was in rapidly producing rough sketches from nature (a majority of the sketches were drawn from newly killed specimens) capturing the distinctiveness of each species. Gould then oversaw the process whereby his artists worked his sketches up into the finished drawings, which were made into coloured lithographs by engraver William Hart.

There were problems: the stone engraving of the [[snowy owl]] in volume I was dropped and broken at an early stage in the printing. Later issues of this plate show evidence of this damage and consequently the early issue – printed before the accident – are considered more desirable.

The lithographs were hand coloured. In the introduction for the work, Gould states "every sky with its varied tints and every feather of each bird were coloured by hand; and when it is considered that nearly two hundred and eighty thousand illustrations in the present work have been so treated, it will most likely cause some astonishment to those who give the subject a thought."

The work has gathered critical acclaim: according to Mullens and Swann, ''Birds of Great Britain'' is "the most sumptuous and costly of British bird books", whilst Wood describes it as "a magnificent work". Isabella Tree writes that it "was seen – perhaps partly because its subject was British, as the culmination of [his] ... genius".<ref>''The Ruling Passion of John Gould''. London: 1991, Barrie & Jenkins, {{ISBN|9780712621588}} {{page needed|date=January 2014}}</ref>

==Tributes==
A number of animals have been named after Gould, including those in English such as the [[Gould's mouse]].

Birds named by or after Gould include:
* [[Gould's petrel]] (''Pterodroma leucoptera'')
* [[Gould's shortwing]] (''Brachypteryx stellata'')
* [[Gould's frogmouth]] (''Batrachostomus stellatus'')
* [[Gould's jewelfront]] (''Heliodoxa aurescens'')
* [[Gould's inca]] (''Coeligena inca'')
* [[Gould's toucanet]] (''Selenidera gouldii)''
* [[Dot-eared coquette]] (''Lophornis gouldii)''
* [[Olive-backed euphonia]] (''Euphonia gouldi)''

Two species of reptiles are named in his honour: Gould's monitor (''[[Varanus gouldii]])'' and Gould's hooded snake (''[[Parasuta|Parasuta gouldii]])''.<ref>[[species:Bo Beolens|Beolens, Bo]]; [[species:Michael Watkins|Watkins, Michael]]; Grayson, Michael (2011). ''The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles''. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. {{ISBN|978-1-4214-0135-5}}. ("Gould", p. 104).</ref>

The [[Tasmanian giant freshwater crayfish]] (''Astacopsis gouldi)'' was named after Gould's son Charles.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Mulhern|first=T. D.|date=2018|title=Correcting misconceptions about the names applied to Tasmania's giant freshwater crayfish Astacopsis gouldi (Decapoda: Parastacidae)|journal=Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania|volume=152|pages=21–26|doi=10.26749/rstpp.152.21|doi-access=free}}</ref>

[[Gould's sunbird]], or Mrs. Gould's sunbird, (''Aethopyga gouldiae'') and the [[Gouldian finch]] (''Erythrura gouldiae'') were named after his wife.<ref>{{cite book|last=Beolens|first=Bo|title=Whose Bird? Men and Women Commemorated in the Common Names of Birds|year=2003|publisher=Christopher Helm|location=London|page=146|author2=Watkins, Michael}}</ref>

A visit to Gould in his old age provided the inspiration for [[John Everett Millais]]'s painting ''[[The Ruling Passion]]''.

The [[Gould League]], founded in Australia in 1909, was named after him. This organisation gave many Australians their first introduction to birds, along with more general environmental and ecological education. One of its major sponsors was the [[Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union]].

In 1976, he was honoured on a postage stamp, bearing his portrait, issued by [[Australia Post]]. In 2009, a series of birds from his ''Birds of Australia,'' with paintings by H. C. Richter, were featured in another set of stamps.<ref>{{cite journal | year=2009 | title= Migrating waterbirds: international postage paid envelopes and aerogrammes | journal=Stamp Bulletin | volume=300 | url=http://shop.auspost.com.au/assets/document/1250027268-bulletin300_low.pdf | page=14 | author=Anon}}</ref>

== Family ==
Gould married the painter Elizabeth Coxen (18 July 1804 – 15 August 1841) on 5 January 1829.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://australian.museum/learn/collections/museum-archives-library/john-gould/elizabeth-gould-1804-1841/ |title=Elizabeth Gould (1804–1841) |publisher=Australian Museum |access-date=12 August 2022}}</ref>
They had at least three sons, (John) Henry Gould (1829–1855) and Franklin Gould (1839–1873) dying before him.
Their youngest son, [[Charles Gould (geologist)|Charles Gould]], was a geological surveyor.
They also had at least three daughters, although only the names of two are known, Eliza (born c. 1832) and Sarah Gould (born 1841).
Elizabeth Gould died from [[puerperal fever]] after giving birth to Sarah, her eighth child.

== Bibliography ==
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Among the publications of John Gould are:<ref name=biblio>See also:{{cite web |url=https://australianmuseum.net.au/gould-the-publisher |title=John Gould, books and illustrations |publisher=Australian Museum Research Library |access-date=23 July 2019 |archive-date=26 July 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180726201807/https://australianmuseum.net.au/gould-the-publisher |url-status=dead }}</ref>
* {{cite book| last=Gould |first =John |author-link=John Gould |title=The Birds of Europe |date=1832–1837 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/65989 |location=London |publisher=published by the author; printed by Richard and John E. Taylor|id={{OCLC|858091802|show=all}}}} 5 vols. Drawn from nature & on stone by J. & E. Gould.
* John Gould; [https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/156962 ''A Monograph of the Ramphastidae, or Family of Toucans'']; 1833–35. 1 vol. 34 plates; Artists: J. Gould, E. Gould, E. Lear and G. Scharf; Lithographers: E. Gould and E. Lear;
* John Gould; ''[https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/102311#/summary A Synopsis of the Birds of Australia, and the Adjacent Islands]''; 1837–38 1 vol. 73 plates; Artist and lithographer: E. Gould
* John Gould; ''[https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/105698#/summary The Birds of Australia]''; 1840–48. 7 vols. 600 plates; Artists: J. Gould and E. Gould; Lithographer: E. Gould
* John Gould; [https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/149005#/summary''A Monograph of the Odontophorinae, or Partridges of America'']; 1844–50 1 vol. 32 plates; Artists: J. Gould and H. C. Richter; Lithographer: H. C. Richter
* John Gould; [https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/51056#/summary ''Monograph of the Trochilidae, or Family of Humming-Birds'']; 1849–61 5 vol. 25 parts, 360 plates; Artists: J. Gould and H. C. Richter; Lithographer: H. C. Richter; title pages for the volumes were issued last and are all dated 1861
* John Gould; ''[https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/54727 The Birds of Asia]''; 1850–83 7 vols. 530 plates, Artists: J. Gould, [[H. C. Richter]], W. Hart and J. Wolf; Lithographers: H. C. Richter and W. Hart; Parts 33–55 completed after Gould's death by R. Bowdler Sharpe; Vol VI :Artist and lithographer: W. Hart
* John Gould; ''[https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/107411#/summary The Birds of Australia; Supplement]'' 1851–69. 1 vol. 81 plates; Artists: J. Gould and H. C. Richter; Lithographer: H. C. Richter
* John Gould; [https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/127814 ''The Birds of Great Britain'']; 1873. 5 vols. 367 plates; Artists: J. Gould, J. Wolf, H.C. Richter and W. Hart; Lithographers: H. C. Richter and W. Hart<ref name=intro>See also [https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/12385 ''An Introduction to the Birds of Britain'']; 1873</ref>
* John Gould; [https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/133931#/summary''The Birds of New Guinea and the Adjacent Papuan Islands, including many new species recently discovered in Australia'']; 1875–88. 5 vols. 300 plates; Parts 13–25 completed after Gould's death by R. Bowdler Sharpe; Artists: J. Gould and W. Hart; Lithographer: W. Hart
* John Gould; [https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/51056 ''A Monograph of the Trochilidae, or Family of Humming-birds''] Supplement, completed after Gould's death by R. Bowdler Sharpe; 1880–87. 5 parts. 58 plates; Artists: J. Gould and W. Hart; Lithographer: W. Hart

== Note ==
John Gould also happened to live next to the famous [[Broad Street pump]] during 1854.  The pioneering epidemiologist [[John Snow (physician)|John Snow]] mentions Gould and his assistant Prince in his famous publication: ''On the mode of communication of cholera''.<ref>{{ cite book | last=Snow | first=John | author-link=John Snow | year=1855 | title=On the Mode of Communication of Cholera | edition=2nd | place=London | publisher=John Churchill | page=[https://archive.org/details/b28985266/page/53 53] | url=https://archive.org/details/b28985266 }}</ref>

==See also==
* {{intitle|Gouldi}} for species named for Gould
* {{intitle|Gouldii}} for species named for Gould

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==Sources==
* Chisholm, A. H. 1938. Out of the past: Gould material discovered. ''Victoria Naturalist'' 55:95–102.
* Gould, John. 1840–1848. ''[http://nla.gov.au/nla.aus-f4773 The Birds of Australia: in seven volumes]''.
* Maguire, T. H. 1846–1852.''Portraits of the Honorary Members of the Ipswich Museum'' (George Ransome, Ipswich).
* {{cite DNB|wstitle=Gould, John|volume=22|pages=287–8}}
* Sauer, G. C. 1948. Bird art and artists; John Gould. ''American Antiques Journal'' 3:6–9.
* Sauer, G. C. 1983. John Gould in America. In ''Contributions to the History of North American Natural History''. London, Society for the Bibliography of Natural History Special Publication No. 2:51–58.
* [[Adrian Desmond|Desmond, Adrian]] and [[James Moore (biographer)|James Moore]]. 1991. ''Charles Darwin'' (Penguin)
* Sauer, G. C. 1982. ''John Gould the bird man: a chronology and bibliography''. (Melbourne, Landsdowne)
* Tree, Isabella. 1991. ''The Ruling Passion of John Gould'' (Grove Weidefeld)
* Tree, Isabella. 2003. ''The Bird Man – The Extraordinary Story of John Gould'' (Ebury Press)
* {{Dictionary of Australian Biography|First=John|Last=Gould|shortlink=0-dict-biogG.html#gould1}}

==External links==
{{Commons}}
* [http://australianmuseum.net.au/John-Gould/ Exhibition at the Australian Museum]
* [http://darwin-online.org.uk/EditorialIntroductions/Freeman_ZoologyOfBeagle.html ''The Zoology of the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle'' – bibliography by  Freeman, R. B. (1977)]
* A. H. Chisholm, '[http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A010427b.htm Gould, John (1804–1881)]', ''[[Australian Dictionary of Biography]]'', Volume 1, [[Melbourne University Press|MUP]], 1966, pp 465–467.
* [http://gallica.bnf.fr/scripts/catalog.php?Mod=i&Auteur=John+Gould Scanned books from Gallica]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20070815221147/http://www.mirroroftheworld.com.au/exploration/terra_australis/mammals_australia.php The Mammals of Australia] – Series of high-resolution images taken from the 1845 edition.
* [https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/creator/7221#/titles Digitised works by John Gould (1804–1881)] at [[Biodiversity Heritage Library]]
* [http://www.louisianadigitallibrary.org/islandora/object/loyno-p16313coll24:collection Birds of Great Britain], digitized by Special Collections & Archives at [[Loyola University New Orleans]]
* [http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/7467 Works by John Gould] at [[Project Gutenberg]]
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