PHILIP HENRY GOSSE'S

SEASIDE DIARY 1855

Jan 1st Annelida published in Excelsior. Bib p113. Letters from Alabama series 1 part 1 published in Home Friend. On artificial sea-water , reply published in Annals. No. 85.
Jan 6th Genesis published in Christian Annotator. Bib p114.
Feb 1st
Insecta part 1 and Scenes in Hispaniola part 1 published in Excelsior. Bib p113/14. Letters from Alabama part 2 published in Home Friend.
Feb 3rd
Title of the Apocalypse published in Christian Annotator. Bib p115.
Feb 10th
John published in Christian Annotator. Bib p115.
Feb 17th
Samuel published in Christian Annotator. Bib p115.
March 1st
Insecta part 2 published in Excelsior. Bib p113. Letters from Alabama part 3 published in Home Friend.
March 3rd
Thessalonians, Revelation , published in Christian Annotator. Bib p115.
March 5th
Submitted paper On Monopus medusicola to Annals. No. 88.
March 17th
James published in Christian Annotator. Bib p115.
March 20th
Entered room and saw Hyas eating a shore crab Carcinus mænas . Leeds . Read my Memoir establishing the genus Sagartia before the Linnean Society from specimens received from the Rev. Kingsley. Act. Brit. p30/236.
March 21st
Arrived in Weymouth . Emily p51.
March 31st
Ezekiel published in Christian Annotator. Bib p115.
April 1st
Insecta part 3 published in Excelsior. Bib p113. Letters from Alabama part 4 published in Home Friend. On Monopus medusicola published in Annals. No. 88.
April 6th
Today is my 44th birthday.
April 23rd
Hydra tuba appeared in tank 4. Leeds.
April 28th
Hebrews published in Christian Annotator. Bib p115.
May 1st
Scenes in Hispaniola part 2 published in Excelsior. Bib p114.
May 13th
Departed Weymouth to return to London . Emily p51.
June 1st
Arachnida published in Excelsior. Bib p113. Letters from Alabama part 5 published in Home Friend. Scenes in Hispaniola part 3 published in Excelsior. Bib p114. 
June 12th
Serpuladæ tubularia threw of operculum. Leeds.
June 13th
Serpuladæ tubularia protruded crown retracted rapidly. Leeds.
June 19th
Serpuladæ tubularia has protruded only at night very chary- but not bold by day.
July 1st
Crustacea part 1 and Scenes in Hispaniola part 4 published in Excelsior. Bib p113/14. Letters from Alabama series 2 part 1, and Wandering through the conservatories at Kew part 1, published in Home Friend.
July 2nd
Studied and made notes on young Leech. Leeds.
July 21st
Joel published in Christian Annotator. Bib p115.
Aug 1st
Crustacea part 2 published in Excelsior. Bib p113. Letters from Alabama part 2 and Wandering through the conservatories at Kew part 2, published in Home Friend.
Aug 4th
Exodus papyri; Chronology of the judges published in Christian Annotator. Bib p115.
Sept 1st
Letters from Alabama part 3 published in Home Friend. Scenes in Hispaniola part 5 published in Excelsior. Bib p114.
Sept 21st
Today is Willy's 6th birthday.
Oct 1st
Polyzoa & Tunicata published in Excelsior. Bib p113. Letters from Alabama part 4, and Wandering through the conservatories at Kew part 3, published in Home Friend. Extract of March 20 th paper published in Annals. No. 94.
Oct 13th
Ezekiel published in Christian Annotator. Bib p116.
Nov 1st
Conchifera & Gastropoda and Scenes in Hispaniola part 1, published in Excelsior. Bib p113/14. Letters from Alabama part 6 published in Home Friend.
Nov 10th
Today is Emily's 49th birthday. Read my paper at Linnean Society of London on Description of Peachia hastate, a new genus and species of the Class Zoophyta.
Nov 23rd Today is our 7th wedding anniversary.
Dec 1st
Letters from Alabama part 6 published in Home Friend. Scenes in Hispaniola part 7 published in Excelsior. Bib p114.
Dec 18th
Received Cliona and Corynactis viridis from Dartmouth , all put into tank 2. Leeds.

Reference. Rambles;  A Naturalist's Rambles on the Devonshire Coast . P.H. Gosse. 1853.
Aquarium;
The Aquarium: an unveiling of the wonders of the deep. P.H. Gosse. 1854. Act Brit; Actinologia Britannica. P.H. Gosse. 1860. Annals; Annals & Magazine of Natural History. 1852-1856. 2 nd Series Vols. 9-18. Zoo; The Zoologist. 1852-1856. Vols. 6-13. Life; The Life of Philip Henry Gosse, F.R.S. Edmund Gosse. 1890. Mem; A memorial of the last days on earth of Emily Gosse. P.H. Gosse. 1857. EUL.; Edinburgh University Library. CUL; Cambridge University Library. Leeds; Brotherton Collection, Leeds University Library. Bib.; P. H. Gosse; a bibliography. R. B. Freeman & Douglas Wertheimer. 1980.