Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)/Gosse, Philip Henry

GOSSE, PHILIP HENRY, an English naturalist; born in Worcester, England, April 10, 1810. In 1827 he went to Newfoundland as a clerk, and

was afterward in turn farmer in Canada, schoolmaster in Alabama, and professional naturalist in Jamaica. Returning to England, he published &ldquo;Canadian Naturalist&rdquo; (1840). He wrote &ldquo;Birds of Jamaica&rdquo; (1851); &ldquo;A Naturalist's Sojourn in Jamaica&rdquo; (1851); &ldquo;Naturalist's Ramble on the Devonshire Coast&rdquo; (1853); &ldquo;Aquarium&rdquo; (1854); &ldquo;Manual of Marine Zoölogy&rdquo; (1855-1856); &ldquo;Romance of Natural History&rdquo; (1860-1862), his best known work; &ldquo;Actinologia Britannica&rdquo; (1860); &ldquo;Popular British Ornithology&rdquo; (1853). In the year 1886 he placed in the hands of Dr. C. T. Hudson the notes and drawings of a lifetime on the microscopic study of the Rotifera. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1856. He died in Torquay, Devon, in 1888.