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To G. R. Waterhouse   [November 1843]

Down, near Bromley | Kent

Thursday

My dear Waterhouse

I am indeed delighted at your news & most heartily congratulate you on your appointment having come so quickly & so satisfactorily—1

I can only look at it as a step to future promotion; & may my prediction come true. Poor as the place at present is, after what you have gone through at the Zoological Society, the certainty of it must be a great comfort— I should think Kœnig2 was an odd fish, but I fancy from all I have heard, that he is a well meaning man.—

I suppose you will begin working like a Trojan at fossil Osteology—

With our united congratulations & kind wishes to Mrs. Waterhouse | believe me | Most truly Your’s | C. Darwin

1
Waterhouse was appointed assistant in the Mineralogical Department of the British Museum in November 1843 (DNB).
2
Charles Dietrich Eberhard König was in charge of the Mineralogical Department of the British Museum. Waterhouse worked mainly on fossil Mammalia.

Manuscript Alterations and Comments

point omitted after : 2.1 ‘come’

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