To G. R. Waterhouse [January–June 1850]
Summary
Wishes to propose John Lubbock as a member of the Entomological Society.
Asks for B. H. Hodgson’s pamphlet on sheep ["Tame sheep and goats", J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal 16 (1847): 1003–26]. Asks for odd numbers of GRW’s work [A natural history of the Mammalia (1846–8)]. Regrets that this work has stopped.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Robert Waterhouse |
Date: | [Jan–June 1850] |
Classmark: | Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (Archives DF PAL/100/6/6) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1144 |
To George Robert Waterhouse [6 February 1848]
Summary
Invites GRW to a dinner party with other scientists.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Robert Waterhouse |
Date: | [6 Feb 1848] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.69) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1154 |
To G. R. Waterhouse 10 [June 1844 – March 1845]
Summary
Invites GRW and his family to visit.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Robert Waterhouse |
Date: | 10 [June 1844 - Mar 1845] |
Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13852 |
To George Robert Waterhouse 5 March [1867?]
Summary
Wishes to know the correct name for the British Museum’s specimen of an Abyssinian wolf described by Wilhelm Rueppell, Neue Wirbelthiere zu der Fauna von Abyssinien [1835–40] .
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Robert Waterhouse |
Date: | 5 Mar [1867?] |
Classmark: | Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (Archives DF PAL/100/9/22) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1394 |
To George Robert Waterhouse 8 September [1852]
Summary
Knows no one in Buenos Aires. Suggests sites in South America where Auguste Bravard can find fossils.
Ray Society has delayed distribution [of Living Cirripedia (1851)].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Robert Waterhouse |
Date: | 8 Sept [1852] |
Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1487 |
To G. R. Waterhouse 29 August [1854]
Summary
Sends fossil cirripedes for the museum’s collection.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Robert Waterhouse |
Date: | 29 Aug [1854] |
Classmark: | Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (Archives DF PAL/100/7/) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1583 |
To G. R. Waterhouse 4 March [1855]
Summary
A page of [unspecified] text is missing from a parcel of material received from GRW.
CD "hopes and expects to live to see Carboniferous, & perhaps even Silurian, mammifers!"
Has several questions to ask whenever they meet.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Robert Waterhouse |
Date: | 4 Mar [1855] |
Classmark: | Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (Archives DF PAL/100/7/29) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1641 |
To G. R. Waterhouse 8 July [1855]
Summary
Asks GRW if there is any easy systematic work on Lepidoptera for his sons. Considers making out the names from descriptions fine practice for the intellect; mere collecting is idle work.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Robert Waterhouse |
Date: | 8 July [1855] |
Classmark: | McGill University Library, Department of Rare Books |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1713 |
To G. R. Waterhouse 1 April [1860]
Summary
Has no drone cells in collection of honeycombs. Discusses construction of cells by bees and ability of bees to judge distances in constructing comb.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Robert Waterhouse |
Date: | 1 Apr [1860] |
Classmark: | Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections MSS DAR 7) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2740 |
To George Robert Waterhouse 12 November [1861]
Summary
Returns a letter from a Mr Walsh – "a clear-headed man on my side". What he says about sea trout in lochs would make a good case for CD if borne out by professional ichthyologists.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Robert Waterhouse |
Date: | 12 Nov [1861] |
Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3317 |
To George Robert Waterhouse [August 1838–40]
Summary
Determined to make GRW a geologist. Sends copy of C. Lyell [?Elements of geology (1838)].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Robert Waterhouse |
Date: | [Aug 1838–40] |
Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-416 |
To G. R. Waterhouse [4 or 11 September 1842]
Summary
Thanks GRW for collection [of insects] he has made up for CD’s nephew.
Leaves decision to GRW as to which institutions should receive CD’s Beagle insects.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Robert Waterhouse |
Date: | [4 or 11] Sept 1842 |
Classmark: | Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-641 |
To G. R. Waterhouse 8 July 1843
Summary
Testimonial letter for GRW for position at British Museum.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Robert Waterhouse |
Date: | 8 July 1843 |
Classmark: | Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Library MSS WAT) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-681 |
To G. R. Waterhouse [26 July 1843]
Summary
Classification consists of grouping beings according to descent from common stocks. Analogies are resemblances between forms not inherited from common stocks. Neither number of species nor grade of organisation should be considered in classification. Admits that caution is necessary in admitting a few species to form a group of rank equal to one containing many species.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Robert Waterhouse |
Date: | [26 July 1843] |
Classmark: | DAR 185: 68 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-684 |
To G. R. Waterhouse [31 July 1843]
Summary
Has no objection to uniting Monotremata and other marsupials but would object to doing so solely on ground that Monotremata consists of only two species. Members of a natural group need not share common character so long as they are linked with those which do. Believes that if every organism that ever lived were collected, a perfect series would be presented. What are reasons that unite Aptera and Diptera?
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Robert Waterhouse |
Date: | [31 July 1843] |
Classmark: | DAR 185: 69 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-685 |
To G. R. Waterhouse [November 1843]
Summary
Congratulates GRW on appointment to position at British Museum.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Robert Waterhouse |
Date: | [Nov 1843] |
Classmark: | Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Library MSS WAT) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-710 |
To G. R. Waterhouse [3 or 17 December 1843]
Summary
Comments on GRW’s paper [Rep. BAAS (1843): 65–7; Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 12 (1843): 399–412]. CD says by "link" between any two groups he never understood a half-way link, merely one in a long series. Observes that one cannot have a simple species intermediate between two great families. Criticises GRW’s use of circles to represent groups, which leads to thinking that groups are of equal value.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Robert Waterhouse |
Date: | [3 or 17] Dec 1843 |
Classmark: | Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections MSS DAR A 3) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-718 |
To George Robert Waterhouse [after 22 May 1845]
Summary
Thanks him for describing the niata ox.
He is delighted that GRW is grappling with Galápagos insects. Needs to know immediately whether any entomologists beside GRW, Walker and A. White have described his insects.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Robert Waterhouse |
Date: | [after 22 May 1845] |
Classmark: | Bloomsbury Auctions (dealers) (1990) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-864A |
To G. R. Waterhouse 18 January [1853]
Summary
Thanks GRW for his sympathy on his ill health. Feels better lately.
Sends thanks to G. P. Deshayes for his advice.
Asks what "original work" GRW has begun so his name will become better known.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Robert Waterhouse |
Date: | 18 Jan [1853] |
Classmark: | McGill University Library, Department of Rare Books |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-944 |
From G. R. Waterhouse 11 November 1854
Summary
Sends list of aberrant forms of Curculionidae.
Discusses in detail the artificiality of Carl Johan Schönherr’s classification. Sound generalisations about geographical distribution depend on sound classifications. Warns against putting too much faith in current catalogues.
Author: | George Robert Waterhouse |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 11 Nov 1854 |
Classmark: | DAR 205.9: 401 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1598 |
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Waterhouse, G. R. | (23) |
Darwin, C. R. | (19) |
Darwin, C. R. | (23) |
Waterhouse, G. R. | (19) |