The Biographical Dictionary of America/Anthony, John Gould

ANTHONY, John Gould, naturalist, was born at Providence, R. I., May 17, 1804. From his boyhood he applied himself to the study of natural history, and was engaged in commercial business in Cincinnati for more than thirty-five years. In 1863, his publications on natural history having attracted the attention of Professor Agassiz, he became the curator of the conchological department of the museum of comparative zoology. Here he became a recognized authority on American mollusca. In 1865 he was Agassiz's companion upon the Thayer expedition to Brazil. The following is a sequential list of his publications: "A New Trilobite" (Ceratocephala Ceralepta) (1838); "Fossil Encrinite" (1838): "Description of a New Fossil (Calymene Bucklandii)" (1839); "Descriptions of Three New Species of Shells" (1839); "Descriptions of Two New Species of Anculotus" (1839); "Description of New Fluviate Shells of the Genus Melania, Lam., from the Western States of North America" (1854); "Descriptions of New Species of American Fluviate Gasterpods" (1861); "Description of Two New Species of Monocondytoca" (1865); "Descriptions of New American Fresh-Water Shells" (1866). He died in Cambridge, Mass., Oct. 16, 1877.