Illustration featured in The Aquarium (1856, 2nd edition). This area of coast (thought to correspond to what is now called Newton's Cove, near Weymouth in Dorset) was a fertile hunting ground for Gosse, and where he came across the rare jellyfish "Goblet Lucemaria" (Depastrum cyathiforme).

Featured on PDR in the essay Bringing the Ocean Home

Bernd Brunner on the English naturalist Philip Henry Gosse and how his 1854 book The Aquarium, complete with spectacular illustrations and a dizzy dose of religious zeal, sparked a craze for the “ocean garden” that gripped Victorian Britain.