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The Correspondence of G R Waterhouse

Catalogue reference: L MSS WAT

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Reference: L MSS WAT
Title: The Correspondence of G R Waterhouse
Date: 1838-1854
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Held by: Natural History Museum Library and Archives
Language: English
Creator(s): <persname>Waterhouse, George Robert, 1810 - 1888, Naturalist</persname>
Physical description: One folder
Administrative / biographical background: Born in London and educated in Belgium, Waterhouse worked as an architect as a young man. He was interested in entomology, and was one of the founders of the Entomological Society of London in 1833. He worked at the Royal Institution, Liverpool, before becoming Curator to the Zoological Society of London and later Assistant in the Mineralogical Branch of the British Museum. Waterhouse became Keeper of the Mineralogical and Geological Branch in 1851 and then Keeper of Geology when the departments were reorganised in 1857. He retired in 1880.
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