GOSSE, PHI LIP HENRY, b. England, 1810; early exhibited intense fondness for natural history, but embarked in mercantile business in Newfoundland. He visited Lower Canada, studying zoology, and entomology, for three years. He traveled through the United States, and resided in Alabama for a year, making a collection of drawings of insects, especially the fine lepidoptera of that reoion. In 1839, returning to England, he published The Canadian Naturalist, 1840. In '1844 he visited Jamaica, and spent eighteen months in the collection and study of the zoology of that island; publishing the result in The Birds of Jamaica, followed by an atlas of illustrations, and A :Nohow list's Sfeourn in Jamaica. The composition of numerous works on zoology and other subjects chiefly for the society for promoting Christian knowledge, occupied several years, during which time he also turned his attention to the microscope, by the aid of which he conducted his latest researches. His special delight was the study of British
rotifera. and he made a vaInsable collection of facts concerning them, with a view to publication. In A Naturalist's Rainbles on the Devonshire Coast he describes his investi gations. In 1854 he published The Aquarium, A Manual of ,lfarine Zoology, and Tenby, a Seaside Holiday; and in 1857, Omphalos ; an attempt to untie the Geological Knot. In the autumn of the same year he removed from London to Torquay, and published the most important of his works, Actinologia Britannira; a History of the British Sea Anemones and Corals. He has written Evenings at the Microscope ; Letters From Alabama ; The Romance of Natural History ; A Year at the Shore, and Land, and Sea. In 1850 he was elected a fellow of the royal society.