Charles Gould (4 June 1834 – 15 April 1893) was the first Geological Surveyor of
Tasmania 1859–69.
Career
He was born in England He conducted three expeditions into
Western Tasmania in the 1860s.
He named many of the mountains on the
West Coast Range.
He also worked as a consultant geologist and land surveyor in Tasmania, the
Bass Strait
Bass Strait () is a strait separating the island state of Tasmania from the Australian mainland (more specifically the coast of Victoria, with the exception of the land border across Boundary Islet). The strait provides the most direct waterwa ...
Islands and in
New South Wales.
He left Australia in late 1873 and died 20 years later, in Montevideo, Uruguay.
His father was the ornithologist
John Gould and his mother was the natural history illustrator
Elizabeth Gould (née Coxen).
Charles Gould was a member of the
Royal Society of Tasmania and an amateur naturalist as well as geologist. He published observations of the distribution, diet and habits of the
Tasmanian giant freshwater crayfish in 1870.
The species was named ''Astacopsis gouldi'' in honour of him by Australian freshwater crayfish ecologis
Ellen Clarkin 1936.
Cryptozoology
Gould was the author of the book ''Mythical Monsters'' (1886) considered an early work on
cryptozoology.
[Nigg, Joe. (1999). ''The Book of Fabulous Beasts: A Treasury of Writings from Ancient Times to the Present''. Oxford University Press. p. 339] Prior to this, Gould published in the Papers and Proceedings of Royal Society of Tasmania on the possibility Australian mythical creature the "
bunyip" was a freshwater seal.
Publications
''Mythical Monsters''(1886)
*Gould, C. 1870: On the distribution and habits of the large fresh-water crayfish (Astacus sp.) of the northern rivers of Tasmania. Monthly Notices of Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania: 42–44.
*Gould, C.1872: Large aquatic animals, ''Monthly Notices of Papers & Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania'' , pp. 32–38.
See also
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Geology of Tasmania
References
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1834 births
1893 deaths
Cryptozoologists
19th-century British geologists
Explorers of Tasmania
Western Tasmania
British emigrants to Australia