GOSSE, PHILIP HENRY (1810-1888), English natural ist, was born at Worcester on April 6, 181o. In 1827 he became a clerk in a whaler's office at Carbonear, Newfoundland, where he beguiled the tedium of his life by investigations into natural his tory. After an unsuccessful interlude of farming in Canada he travelled in the United States, taught for some time in Alabama, and returned to England in 2839. He published many popular books on zoology, and was elected F. R. S. in 1856. He died at St. Marychurch, Devon, on Aug. 23, 1888.