INDEX. 



A 



Abaco, Bahamas, ii8 



Abraham and his Children, Mrs. Emily 



Gosse's, 256 

 Academy of Natural Science, Philadelphia, 



113 



Actinia. See Sea-Anemones 



Actinologia Britannica, ib. 



Alabama, life and scenery in, 124-148 



Alder, Joshua, 243, 2'j6 



American ideas of British, 140, 141 



Andrews, Miss, 293 



Aquarium. See Marine Aquarium 



, Gosse's The, 246, 251, 252, 261, 



288, 297, 340 

 Arlidge, Dr., 318 

 Asplanchna, 226 

 Assyria ; her Manners and Customs, 



Arts and Arms, Gosse's, 231 



B 



Babbicom.be in 1852, 237 



Baird, Dr. William, 172 



Balanophyllia, 241 



Banim's O'Hara tales, 55, 345 



Bate, C. Spence, 252 



Battersby, Robert, 266 



Battle 0/ Hastings, Ao. i, Chatterton's, 17 



Bear, curious case of shooting a, 134 



Beavers, 65, 66, 108 



Bell, Mrs. Susan, "Aunt Bell," 12. 



, Thomas, F.R.S., their son, 12, 156- 



158, 170, 250 

 Berger, Mr. William Thomas, 212, 376- 



378 



Bermuda, 205 



Best, Hannah, afterwards Mrs. Thomas 

 Gosse, 3, 4 ; marriage, 5 ; gives birth to 

 Philip Henry, ib. ; contributes to 

 family maintenance, 6 ; loneliness in 

 Poole, 9 ; care and sohcitude, 13 ; 

 strength of character, 16 ; visits her 

 parents, 18, 19 ; in Wimbome, 153 ; 

 keeps house in Hackney for Philip, 

 167 ; removes to Kentish Town, 172 ; 

 return to Hackney, 179 ; association 

 with daughter-in-law, 221 ; quits son's 

 residence, 234 ; rejoins her son at St. 

 Marychurch, 293 ; her death, ib. 



, Philip, grandfather of P. H. Gosse, 



4 



Bethune, Rev. G. W. , 114 



Bible, knowledge of the, 328, 329 



Birch, Dr. Samuel, 211 



Birds, Gosse's, 219, 221 



of Jamaica, Gosse's, 211; Illustra- 

 tions to, 218, 219 



Blandford school, Gosse enters, 21 



Bluefields, Jamaica, 185, 186, 188, 201 



Bohanan, Mr., of Jamaica, 126, 129, 131 



Botta, at Nimroud, 231 



Bowerbank, James Scott, 223, 230. 243, 

 245, 253, 257 



Bowes, Emily, afterwards Mrs. Piiilip 

 Gosse, 215 ; ancestry, ib. ; education, 

 216 ; meets Philip Gosse, 217 ; personal 

 appearance, ib. ; portrait painted by G. 

 F. Joseph, A.R.A., ib. ; marriage with 

 Philip He.nky, 218 ; temperament, 

 221 ; married life, ib., 261, 262 ; assists 

 in translating Ehrenberg's Die Infu- 

 sionsthierschcn, ■2'2\ ; death of her aunt, 

 225 ; death of her mother, 227 ; literary 

 assistance to husband, 242 ; feeble 



