Obituary notices of fellows deceased

Benjamin Apthorp Gould was born at Boston, on September 27, 1824. He entered the Boston Latin School in 1836, and graduated from Harvard College in 1844. In 1845 Gould visited Europe to make himself acquainted with the instrumental equipments of the principal Observatories. With this object he spent about three months at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich; four months at the Paris Observatory; a year at the Berlin Observatory; four months at Altona; and a month at Gotha. He was thus brought into contact with most of the leading astronomers of the time, and made many lasting friendships.