George Robert Waterhouse

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George Robert Waterhouse.

George Robert Waterhouse (born March 6, 1810 in Somers Town , England , † January 21, 1888 in Putney ) was a British zoologist .

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George Robert Waterhouse was the son of the architect James Edward Waterhouse. In 1833 he co-founded the Royal Entomological Society of London and was elected administrator of the library. From 1849 to 1850 he was President of the Society.

In Liverpool , Waterhouse was the curator of the Museum of the Liverpool Royal Institution from 1835 to 1836 . He then moved to the Zoological Society , for which he also worked as a curator until 1843. In November 1843 he became assistant curator of mineralogy at the British Museum in London and in December 1851 administrator of the department. In 1857 Waterhouse became administrator of the geological department. He held this post until June 21, 1880.

Charles Darwin met Waterhouse while studying at Cambridge at the end of 1829, because both were avid collectors of beetles . At the beginning of January 1837 Darwin donated the mammals and birds collected during his trip with the HMS Beagle to the Zoological Society. Waterhouse agreed for the planned work The Zoology of the Voyage of HMS Beagle to edit the mammals, since he was already working on a catalog on the preserved in the Museum mammals ( Catalog of the mammalia preserved in the Museum of the Zoological Society of London ) .

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Works

  • Catalog of the mammalia preserved in the Museum of the Zoological Society of London . 1838-1839
  • The Zoology of the Voyage of HMS Beagle . Mammalia . Smith, Elder & Co. , London 1838–1839
  • The Naturalist's Library. Mammalia. Vol. XI .: Marsupialia, or Pouched Animals . WH Lizars, Edinburgh 1841
  • A natural history of the Mammalia . 2 volumes, H. Baillière, London 1846-1848
  • Catalog of British Coleoptera . Taylor and Francis, London 1858

Journal articles (selection)

  • Description of a new Genus of Mammiferous Animals from Australia, belonging probably to the Order Marsupialia . In: Transactions of the Zoological Society of London . Volume 2, pp. 149-154, 1836
  • Description of the larva and pupa of Raphidia ophiopsis . In: Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London . Volume 1, pp. 23-27, plate 3, 1836; on-line
  • Descriptions of some new Coleopterous Insects from the Philippine Islands, collected by H. CUMING . In: Transactions of the Entomological Society of London . Volume 2, pp. 36-45, 1841 online
  • Descriptions of Coleopterous Insects Collected by Charles Darwin, Esq., In the Galapagos Islands . In: Annals and Magazine of Natural History, including Zoology, Botany, and Geology . Volume 16, pp. 19-41, 1845; on-line
  • Descriptions of some new genera and species of Heteromerous Coleoptera . In: Annals and Magazine of Natural History, including Zoology, Botany, and Geology Volume 16, pp. 317-324, 1845; on-line
  • Descriptions of new genera and species of Curculionides . In: Transactions of the Entomological Society of London . Volume 2, pp. 179-181, 1853

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literature

Frederic Boase: Modern English Biography: Containing Many Thousand Concise Memoirs of Persons who Have Died Since the Year 1850, with an Index of the most Interesting Matter . Netherton & Worth, Truro 1892-1921 - 6 volumes

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Adrian Desmond, James Moore: Darwin . List Verlag, Munich Leipzig 1991, p. 94. ISBN 3-471-77338-X
  2. ↑ Desmond / Moore, p. 240

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personal data
SURNAME Waterhouse, George Robert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English zoologist and naturalist
DATE OF BIRTH March 6, 1810
PLACE OF BIRTH Somers Town , England
DATE OF DEATH January 21, 1888
Place of death Putney