Philip Henry Gosse as he appears in the frontispiece to The Naturalist of the Sea-shore: The Life of Philip Henry Gosse (1896) by his son Edmund.

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.

Philip Henry Gosse

Date

1896

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The Naturalist of the Sea-shore: The Life of Philip Henry Gosse


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