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From G. R. Waterhouse [after 2 March 1855]
Summary
Gives instances of sexual differences in the number of tarsi within species of Coleoptera and also variation in the number of tarsi between related species.
| Author: | George Robert Waterhouse |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [after 2 Mar 1855] |
| Classmark: | DAR 47: 133–4 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1625 |
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 |
From G. R. Waterhouse [7 March 1855]
Summary
Comparison of skulls of Ichthyosaurus and Cetacea.
| Author: | George Robert Waterhouse |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [7 Mar 1855] |
| Classmark: | DAR 181: 20 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1642 |
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 |
Document type
| letter | (4) |
Author
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Waterhouse, G. R. | (2) |
Addressee
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Waterhouse, G. R. | (2) |
Correspondent
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Waterhouse, G. R. |
