From:
George Robert Waterhouse
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[20 September 1837]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.94
Summary:
Received JH's collection of African insects, etc. Describes its luminous molluscs, crustaceans, Hottentot fish. Government granted £1500 to [William?] Smith and £1000 to C. R. Darwin to publish discoveries, and £500 to R.A.S. [Elizabeth Ann Waterhouse adds 1.5 pages to Margaret Brodie Herschel about birth of EW's second daughter, deaths in family.]
Contributor:
John Herschel Project