[2] He also worked as a consultant geologist and land surveyor in Tasmania, the Bass Strait Islands and in New South Wales.
Charles Gould was a member of the Royal Society of Tasmania and an amateur naturalist as well as geologist.
[3] The species was named Astacopsis gouldi in honour of him by Australian freshwater crayfish ecologist Ellen Clark in 1936.
[4][5] Gould was the author of the book Mythical Monsters (1886) considered an early work on cryptozoology.
[6][7] Prior to this, Gould published in the Papers and Proceedings of Royal Society of Tasmania on the possibility that the Australian mythical creature the "bunyip" was a freshwater seal.