INDEX. 



38i 



Dolphin {Coryphcena psittacus), capture, 

 and changeable colour in dying of, 121 

 Doubleday, Edward, 171, 178, 233 



, Henry, 171 



Drew, Mrs. , of Poole, 17 

 Dujardin's Systolides, 231 

 Dyson, David, 179 

 Dyster, Frederick, 254 



Egypt, Monuments of Ancient, 211 

 Ehrenberg's Die Infusionsthierchen, 224, 



226, 255 

 Elson, Mr., merchant of Carbonear, 34, 



37. 38, 43. 57. 61, 68, 71, 75, 79, 88 ; 



decline of his firm, 105 

 Emigrant life in Canada, 92-96 

 Encyclopedia Perthensis, earliest study, 11 

 Entomologia Alabamensis, an unpublished 



work, 130 



Terrce-novce, 79-80 



Entomological Journal, 71, 80, 96 ; ex- 

 tracts from, 100, 101, 106-109 



Society, 315 



Entomologist, The, Edward Newman's, 



171 

 Entomologist's Text Book, Westwood's, 



172 

 Entomology of Newfoundland, 102 

 Epping Forest, 167, 171 

 Epps, Dr. John, 270 

 Essays of Elia, 38 

 Evolutionism, position towards, 273, 276, 



277. 33 6 

 Excelsior Magazine, 275 



Fairbank, Dr., 202 



Faraday, 335, 350 



Fishes, Gosse's, 225, 227 



Florida Reef, 118, 119 



Floscularidce, the, 295 



Fog-bow or circle off Newfoundland, 62 



Forbes, Edward, 243, 252, 255, 268, 272, 



333. 344 

 Foster, Prof. Michael, 317 

 Fourierism, 87 



Gamble, T. , of Carbonear, 47 



Garland and Co., Messrs. George, of 

 Poole, 24, 29 



Geology and Genesis, 277 



Glaucus, or the Wonders of the Shore, 

 Kingsley's, 253, 257 ; projects of Gosse 

 noticed in, 344 



Glimpses of the Wonderful, 178, 179 



Good Words, contributes to, 296, 297 



Goodrington sands, 321, 322 



Gosse family, 2 



, Elizabeth, afterwards Mrs. Green, 



sister of Philip Henry, 71-73, 103, 156, 

 162 ; her death, 163 



, Etienne, author of Le Me"disant, 2 



, Mrs. Emily. See Bowes, Emily 



, Mrs. Hannah. See Best, Hannah 



, Philip Henry, ancestors, 2; birth, 



5 ; earliest recollection, 6, 7 ; first ill- 

 ness, 10 ; attends dame's school, 10 ; 

 first impression of natural objects, 10, 

 11 ; love of natural history aroused, 

 11, 12 ; rebuffs, 13 ; strength of memory, 

 16, 17 ; attends Sells! school, 17 ; love 

 of books, 18 ; enters Blandford school, 

 21 ; thinking powers, 21 ; rambles and 

 zoological studies, 22, 23 ; appearance 

 at age of fifteen, 24 ; enters mercantile 

 house, 24 ; leisure hours, 26, 27 ; love 

 of lepidoptera, 27 ; appears in print, 28 ; 

 escape from drowning, 28 ; accepts a 

 clerkship in Newfoundland, 29 ; friend- 

 ship with W. C. St. John, 34-37, 39-42 ; 

 fife in Newfoundland, 37, 38, 42, 43 ; 

 attachment to Miss Jane Elson, 45 ; 

 clerical work, 48, 51, 57-59 ; remunera- 

 tion, 51, 52 ; change from boy to man, 

 54 ; attempts novel writing, 57 ; keeps 

 a journal, 59 ; gains information on 

 seals and seal-fishing, 57-60 ; suscepti- 

 bility to ghostly fears, 60 ; moved from 

 Carbonear to St. Mary, 61, 62 ; life at 

 St. Mary's, 62-64 '< return to Carbonear, 

 65 ; attempts poetry, 69 ; commences 

 serious study of natural history, 70 ; 

 becomes _a Christian, 70 ; visits Eng- 

 land, 70 ; sister's illness develops re- 

 ligious feelings, 72, 73 ; return to New- 

 foundland, 76 ; letters exhibiting eager- 

 ness of natural history observations, 



