The Alabama Museum of Natural History in conjunction with Birmingham Audubon invites you to join us for a free event celebrating the life and artwork of the naturalist Philip Henry Gosse.
For further details please visit our website: https://birminghamaudubon.org/gosse/
The Alabama Museum of Natural History in conjunction with Birmingham Audubon invites you to join us for a free event celebrating the life and artwork of the naturalist Philip Henry Gosse.
Born in 1810 in Worcester, England, the young Philip Henry Gosse developed a passion for the natural world. Having learned the basics of miniature portraiture from his father, Gosse quickly took for his artistic subjects the flourishing marine life he discovered along the English coast. In May, 1838, Gosse took a teaching job in Dallas County, Alabama. For the next eight months he collected the insect specimens that he would preserve in the beautifully detailed watercolors of Entomologia Alabamensis. In addition, he composed a highly personalized chronology of his life in a frontier culture, published eventually as Letters from Alabama. Following his return to England, Gosse went on to publish more than 40 books, producing some of the 19th century’s finest illustrations of insects and marine organisms. Today, he is remembered as a popular writer of science for the general public and as a passionate artist whose work in Alabama and elsewhere captured and revealed the beauty and vitality of the natural world.
Admission is Free.
Phone: 205-719-3678
Email: info@birminghamaudubon.org
2019/09/14 - 2019/09/14
Additional time info:
The Details:
4–5 p.m. Presentation by Gary Mullen about Philip Henry Gosse, including time for Q&A (Smith Hall)
5–6 p.m. Reception and book signing (Smith Hall)
6–7 p.m. Swift Night Out field trip to view Chimney Swifts returning to their roost site at sunset (exact location TBD)
Bonus: Following the reception, we will have our first Swift Night Out in Tuscaloosa! Stay tuned to birminghamaudubon.org/events for more info.
Alabama Museum of Natural History
Smith Hall, 427 Sixth Avenue, Tuscaloosa, AL