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Scientific Papers ' contains a list of nearly sixty memoirs from his 

 pen between 1843 and 1867, and this number would require consider- 

 able addition to include those of recent years. But the bulk of his 

 literary labour was expended on works of more popular nature. These 

 were very numerous, and embraced a great variety of subjects ; the 

 style was generally very happily chosen, and they were marked by 

 the same accuracy as his more strictly scientific writings. Much of 

 the interest and value of Mr. Gosse's contributions to science is due to 

 their admirable illustration, the author's facility and precision with 

 pencil and brush, which lasted late into old age, being no doubt in 

 part an inherited gift. 



Mr. Gosse was elected a Fellow of the Society in 1856. His decease 

 took place at Marychurch on the 23rd of April, 1888, in his 79th year. 

 For many years he had led a secluded life, of which his friends were 

 kept aware by his occasional contributions to the scientific journals. 



H. B. B. 



