1. John Gould was an English ornithologist who published monographs on birds, illustrated by plates produced by his wife, Elizabeth Gould, and several other artists, including Edward Lear, Henry Constantine Richter, Joseph Wolf and William Matthew Hart.
John Gould's work is referenced in Charles Darwin's book, On the Origin of Species.
John Gould was born in Lyme Regis, the first son of a gardener.
In 1818, John Gould Snr became foreman in the Royal Gardens of Windsor.
John Gould became an expert in the art of taxidermy.
John Gould's skill helped him to become the first curator and preserver at the museum of the Zoological Society of London in 1827.
John Gould's position brought him into contact with the country's leading naturalists.
John Gould published these birds in A Century of Birds from the Himalaya Mountains.
Elizabeth John Gould completed 84 plates for Birds of Australia before her death.
Subsequently, John Gould advised that the smaller southern 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.
John Gould now sought specimens collected by captain Robert FitzRoy and crewmen.
In February 1839 John Gould sailed to Sydney, leaving his pregnant wife with the Franklins.
John Gould travelled to his brother-in-law's station at Yarrundi, spending his time searching for bowerbirds in the Liverpool Range.
John Gould published A Monograph of the Macropodidae, or Family of Kangaroos and the three-volume work The Mammals of Australia.
John 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.
John Gould accumulated a collection of 320 species, which he exhibited at the Great Exhibition of 1851.
John Gould 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.
John Gould then continued to Washington DC where he saw large numbers in the gardens of the Capitol.
John 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.
John Gould was not directly responsible for the illustrations himself, although he supervised their production closely.
John 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.
John Gould undertook an ornithological tour of Scandinavia in 1856, in preparation for the work, taking with him the artist Henry Wolf who drew 57 of the plates from John Gould's preparatory sketches.
John 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.
The John Gould League, founded in Australia in 1909, was named after him.
John Gould married the painter Elizabeth Coxen on 5 January 1829.
Elizabeth John Gould died from puerperal fever after giving birth to Sarah, her eighth child.
John Gould happened to live next to the famous Broad Street pump during 1854.