Darwin, C. R. to Waterhouse, G. R.
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Thanks GRW for his sympathy on his ill health. Feels better lately.
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Sends thanks to G. P. Deshayes for his advice.
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Asks what "original work" GRW has begun so his name will become better known.
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Down Farnborough Kent
Jan. 18
My dear Waterhouse
I thank you very sincerely for thinking of me & my ailments. Pray give my most
respectful compliments & best thanks to M. Deshayes, for his kind
interest & advice. I will not forget it, but it would
require a powerful purchase to drag me from my home to a foreign land. I have just
lately had a very bad fortnight, otherwise you
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My dear Waterhouse | Ever yours | C. Darwin
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Gérard Paul Deshayes, a French palaeontologist and conchologist, was working at the British Museum cataloguing the collection of bivalve molluscs. - +
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Waterhouse was on the staff of the mineralogical and geological department in the British Museum. - +
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CD's Health diary (Down House MS) from 4 to 16 January 1853 records his condition as ‘poorly’ or ‘not quite well’. Specific afflictions mentioned during the period are boils, flatulence, and vomiting. For CD's spell of good health, see letter to W. D. Fox, 24 [October 1852], n. 3. - +
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Because of the French revolution of 1848, Hippolyte Baillière had ceased publication of Waterhouse's A natural history of the Mammalia with the last part of the second volume (Rodentia) (see Correspondence vol. 4, letter to G. R. Waterhouse, [January–June 1850]). Waterhouse did not recommence this work and was publishing entomological papers at this time.