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Gould, Benjamin Apthorp 1824-1896 Astronomer; born in Boston, Mass., Sept. 27, 1824; graduated at Harvard in 1844, and went abroad for further study in 1845. Returning to the United States in 1848 he settled in Cambridge, Mass., and early in 1849 started the Astronomical journal, in which were published the results of many original investigations. In 1851 he took charge of the longitude operations of the United States Coast Survey. After the Atlantic cable was laid in 1866, he went to Valencia, Ireland, and founded a station where he could determine the difference in longitude between America and Europe. He also, by exact observations, connected the two continents. These were the first determinations, by telegraph, of transatlantic longitude, and they resulted in founding a regular series of longitudinal measurements from Louisiana to the Ural Mountains. In 1856-59 Dr. Gould was director of the Dudley Observatory in Albany, N. Y. In this building the normal clock was first e