To G. R. Waterhouse [January–June 1850]
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.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Robert Waterhouse |
Date: | [Jan–June 1850] |
Classmark: | Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (Archives DF PAL/100/6/6) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1144 |
To G. R. Waterhouse [3 or 17 December 1843]
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.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Robert Waterhouse |
Date: | [3 or 17] Dec 1843 |
Classmark: | Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections MSS DAR A 3) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-718 |
To George Robert Waterhouse 5 March [1867?]
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] .
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Robert Waterhouse |
Date: | 5 Mar [1867?] |
Classmark: | Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (Archives DF PAL/100/9/22) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1394 |
To G. R. Waterhouse [November 1843]
Summary
Congratulates GRW on appointment to position at British Museum.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Robert Waterhouse |
Date: | [Nov 1843] |
Classmark: | Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Library MSS WAT) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-710 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Department of the British Museum . Waterhouse worked mainly on fossil Mammalia. …
To G. R. Waterhouse [31 July 1843]
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?
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Robert Waterhouse |
Date: | [31 July 1843] |
Classmark: | DAR 185: 69 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-685 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Robert. 1846. A natural history of the Mammalia. Vol. 1, Marsupiata or pouched animals. …
To G. R. Waterhouse 18 January [1853]
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.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Robert Waterhouse |
Date: | 18 Jan [1853] |
Classmark: | McGill University Library, Department of Rare Books |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-944 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Waterhouse’s A natural history of the Mammalia with the last part of the second volume ( …
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 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … troubles about the reversed cones of Mammalia &c &c but I am such a brute that I actually …
To G. R. Waterhouse [4 or 11 September 1842]
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.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Robert Waterhouse |
Date: | [4 or 11] Sept 1842 |
Classmark: | Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-641 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Observations on the classification of the Mammalia. Annals and Magazine of Natural History …
George Robert Waterhouse
Summary
George Waterhouse was born on 6 March 1810 in Somers Town, North London. His father was a solicitor’s clerk and an amateur lepidopterist. George was educated from 1821-24 at Koekelberg near Brussels. On his return he worked for a time as an apprentice to…
Darwin in letters, 1837–1843: The London years to 'natural selection'
Summary
The seven-year period following Darwin's return to England from the Beagle voyage was one of extraordinary activity and productivity in which he became recognised as a naturalist of outstanding ability, as an author and editor, and as a professional…
Darwin’s reading notebooks
Summary
In April 1838, Darwin began recording the titles of books he had read and the books he wished to read in Notebook C (Notebooks, pp. 319–28). In 1839, these lists were copied and continued in separate notebooks. The first of these reading notebooks (DAR 119…
Matches: 7 hits
- … American Journal of Science and Arts ]. Rengger on Mammalia of Paraguay [Rengger 1830]— …
- … 1807] read it— Erasmus has it Owens Brit. Mammalia [R. Owen 1846a]— Horner has it. (read) …
- … [Moquin-Tandon 1841] —— Owens Fossil British Mammalia [R. Owen 1846a] 27 th Elie de …
- … Sketch Read Classification & Geograph. Distrib of Mammalia.— Owen 5 o : Parker [R. Owen …
- … Edward. 1843–52. Catalogue of the specimens of Mammalia in the British Museum . 3 pts. (Pt 3: …
- … the classification and geographical distribution of the Mammalia, being the lecture … delivered …
- … 13a Sykes, William Henry. 1832a. Catalogue of the Mammalia observed in the Dakhan. …
Bibliography of Darwin’s geological publications
Summary
This list includes papers read by Darwin to the Geological Society of London, his books on the geology of the Beagle voyage, and other publications on geological topics. Author-date citations refer to entries in the Darwin Correspondence Project’s…
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- … —A sketch of the deposits containing extinct Mammalia in the neighbourhood of the Plata. …
New material added to the American edition of Origin
Summary
A ‘revised and augmented’ American edition of Origin came on the market in July 1860, and was the only authorised edition available in the US until 1873. It incorporated many of the changes Darwin made to the second English edition, but still contained…
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- … to the coexistence of man and the ornithorhynchus amongst mammalia,—or amongst fish, of the shark …