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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Robert Waterhouse
Date:
[Jan–June 1850]
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (Archives DF PAL/100/6/6)
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.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Robert Waterhouse
Date:
[6 Feb 1848]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.69)
Summary:

Invites GRW to a dinner party with other scientists.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Robert Waterhouse
Date:
10 [June 1844 - Mar 1845]
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:

Invites GRW and his family to visit.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Robert Waterhouse
Date:
5 Mar [1867?]
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (Archives DF PAL/100/9/22)
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] .

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Robert Waterhouse
Date:
8 Sept [1852]
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
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)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Robert Waterhouse
Date:
29 Aug [1854]
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (Archives DF PAL/100/7/)
Summary:

Sends fossil cirripedes for the museum’s collection.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Robert Waterhouse
Date:
4 Mar [1855]
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (Archives DF PAL/100/7/29)
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.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Robert Waterhouse
Date:
8 July [1855]
Source of text:
McGill University Library, Department of Rare Books
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.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Robert Waterhouse
Date:
1 Apr [1860]
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections MSS DAR 7)
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.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Robert Waterhouse
Date:
12 Nov [1861]
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
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.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Robert Waterhouse
Date:
[Aug 1838–40]
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:

Determined to make GRW a geologist. Sends copy of C. Lyell [?Elements of geology (1838)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Robert Waterhouse
Date:
[4 or 11] Sept 1842
Source of text:
Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin
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.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Robert Waterhouse
Date:
8 July 1843
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Library MSS WAT)
Summary:

Testimonial letter for GRW for position at British Museum.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Robert Waterhouse
Date:
[26 July 1843]
Source of text:
DAR 185: 68
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.

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Robert Waterhouse
Date:
[31 July 1843]
Source of text:
DAR 185: 69
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?

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Robert Waterhouse
Date:
[Nov 1843]
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Library MSS WAT)
Summary:

Congratulates GRW on appointment to position at British Museum.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Robert Waterhouse
Date:
[3 or 17] Dec 1843
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections MSS DAR A 3)
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.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Robert Waterhouse
Date:
[after 22 May 1845]
Source of text:
Bloomsbury Auctions (dealers) (1990)
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.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Robert Waterhouse
Date:
18 Jan [1853]
Source of text:
McGill University Library, Department of Rare Books
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.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project