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PHILIP HENRY GOSSE, F.R.S. 
“An Introduction to Zoology” (S.P.C.K. Society, 1848), 
“ Popular Ornithology,” 1849, “ A Naturalist’s Sojourn in 
Jamaica,” 1851, “ A Naturalist’s Rambles on the Devon¬ 
shire Coast,” 1858, “The Aquarium: An Unveiling of the 
Wonders of the Deep Sea,” 1854, “ A Manual of Marine 
Zoology of the British Isles,” 1855-6, “Tenby: A Seaside 
Holiday,” 1856, “Life in its Lower Forms,” 1857, “Evenings 
with the Microscope,” 1859, “ Actinologia Britannica: A 
History of the British Sea Anemones and Corals,” 1860, “The 
Romance of Natural History,” 1860-1, “ Sea and Land,” 1865, 
“A Year at the Shore,” 1865, and “The Rotifera, or Wheel 
Animalcules,” 1886 (the last-mentioned work being written in 
conjunction with Dr. C. T. Hudson). The above list is exclusive 
of a large number of Papers communicated by Mr. Gosse 
to the Royal Society (of which he was elected a Fellow in 
1856), the Linnean Society, the Zoological Society, and 
others. Many of the larger works were illustrated by chromo- 
lithographic plates from the author’s own drawings; but 
singularly beautiful as they are, they fail to give a complete 
idea of the fidelity to nature, which characterises the originals. 
Nearly all his works are rising in price, an unfailing tribute 
to the author’s popularity. “ The Aquarium” is perhaps the 
scarcest of all, and, as the lithographic drawings were, we 
believe, accidentally destroyed some years ago, the book 
cannot be reproduced in its present form. 
In order thoroughly to apprehend the nature and value of 
Mr. Gosse’s labours, as briefly recorded above, we must go 
back and see what was the literature on the subject of Marine 
Zoology at the time he did his work. Of the lower forms of 
Marine life—especially the Hydrozoa and Actinozoa—we 
knew but little. Sir John Dalzell had published two or three 
very expensive works on a few rare and remarkable forms, 
but these volumes were scarcely accessible to the student. 
It is true that there existed also the careful works of Dr. 
George Johnston (“ The British Zoophytes,” &c.), which 
were an immense advance on either the “ Zoology” of Pennant 
or of Shaw, but all failed in one important respect, namely, 
to bring before the enquirer the various forms of Marine life 
as tlieij actually lived and moved in the depths of the sea. To 
quote from an obituary notice in the Saturday Review of 
September last:—“ To Mr. Gosse belonged the credit of 
having by close and carefully recorded observations of the 
living creatures themselves brought order out of chaos, and 
led the way to a knowledge of many singular forms which 
until then had been impossible. But even his labours would 
have been attended with only limited success had he not 
