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rence of these minerals in the rocks described in this paper. 

 It is hoped that similar occurrences may present them- 

 selves in more accessible localities so that a more thorough 

 study of them may he made, since, if it could be shown 

 that secondary minerals are commonly developed in this 

 way much light would be thrown on the nature of the com- 

 plicated processes at work during the metamorphosis of 

 rocks. 



Philip Henhy G-osse. 



By Caeeie M. Deeick, B.A. 



One of the earlier explorers in the rich field of Canadian 

 natural history, and a man who did much towards the popu- 

 larization of scientific knowledge, the late Philip Henry 

 G-osse, has been excellently portrayed in a recent biography 

 by his son, the London poet, who not only brought to his 

 task rare literary ability, but had at his command a great 

 mass of biographical material collected by his father. From 

 his •' Life " l the materials for the following sketch have been 

 obtained. 



In their married life, Thomas and Hannah Gosse pre- 

 sented a curious picture of incongruity. He was a wander- 

 ing miniature-painter, shy and unambitious, not an inspired 

 artist but a good draughtsman with a keen appreciation of 

 the beautiful. His wife was strikingly handsome, an un- 

 educated, passionate woman, whose strong practical nature 

 made her the ideal mainstay of the family under the most 

 trying circumstances. 



Their second son, Philip, was bom in Worcester in 1810. 

 But his parents soon removed to Poole, where his childhood 

 was passed. He obtained the rudiments of an education in 

 an ordinary day-school, but the truly educative influence 

 of these early days was constant association with his aunt, 

 Mrs. Bell, who was a woman remarkable for her devotion to 



1 The life of Philip Henry Gosse, by his son Edmund Gosse, London, Keegan, 

 Paul, Trench, Trubner «fc Co., 1890. 



