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ripened into valuable friendships. Edward Newman had 

 been one of the first to welcome with enthusiastic appre- 

 ciation the peculiar qualities of the new writer, and he had 

 not only reviewed The Canadian Naturalist, but had sought 

 out its author as a contributor to his own periodical, The 

 Entomologist. He was introduced by Newman in 1843 to 

 Edward Doubleday, a naturalist of great promise, a little 

 younger than Philip Gosse, and these two formed a friend- 

 ship eminently profitable to each of them, which only 

 terminated w^ith the premature death of the entomologist 

 in 1849. Edward Doubleday, like his new friend, had 

 travelled in America as a collecting naturalist, having 

 returned laden with treasures in 1837. In 1839 he had 

 obtained the position of assistant at the British Museum, 

 and was put in charge of the lepidoptera. When Philip 

 Gosse first became intimate with him, he had just arranged 

 the national collections of moths and butterflies in an 

 admirable manner. In company with Edward, Gosse made 

 frequent pilgrimages to the home of the Doubledays at 

 Epping, where the widowed mother and the more eminent 

 and the elder of the two brothers, Henry Doubleday — 

 probably the greatest entomologist whom England has 

 produced— involved a demure and noiseless Quaker home 

 in an atmosphere of camphor. But Gosse never came to 

 know Henry Doubleday, whom he found reserved and 

 dispiriting, so well as the mercurial Edward, with whom he 

 formed one of the warmest and most easy friendships of 

 his life. It was through the Doubledays, if I mistake not. 

 that Philip Gosse was encouraged to become a contributor 

 to the Proceedings of the Royal Society. The first of his 

 lengthy series of papers read before that body was a Note 

 on an Electric Centipede, published in this year, 1843. 



Other associates of this period were Baird, Whymper, 

 Westwood, Adam White, and the Grays. Dr. William 



