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C.D. Warner, et al., comp.
The Library of the World’s Best Literature. An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

Philip Henry Gosse (1810–1888)

Gosse, Philip Henry. An English naturalist and author; born in Worcester, 1810; died in 1888. In 1827 he started on a scientific tour through Canada, the Southern United States, and Jamaica, and on his return published: ‘The Canadian Naturalist’ (1830); ‘The Birds of Jamaica’ (1845); ‘A Naturalist’s Sojourn in Jamaica.’ In 1856 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. His works, which amount to nearly fifty volumes, also include: ‘Rambles of a Naturalist on the Devonshire Coast’ (1853); ‘Aquarium’ (1854).