WELCOME
TO A STUDENT HISTORY OF
VICTORIAN MARINE

PARLOUR AQUARIUMS
AND "THE SEASIDE YEARS" OF
Philip Henry Gosse. 1852-1856

Including - William Alford Lloyd, the first aquarist; Robert Warington, the inventor of
the balanced aquarium; London Zoo and the worlds first public marine aquariums;
the Victorian aquarium craze.

Philip Henry Gosse 1810-1888