Record

Code	PX56
Dates	1810-1888
Person Name	Waterhouse; George Robert (1810-1888); Geologist
Surname	Waterhouse
Forenames	George Robert
Epithet	Geologist
Activity	Museum staff. Appointed Assistant in Mineralogical Branch, 1843; Keeper 1851; renamed Mineralogical and Geological Branch, then Department, of which he became Keeper, in 1856. When the department divided in 1857, became Keeper of Department of Geology. Responsible for negotiating purchase of Archaeopteryx from Dr Karl Haberlein in 1861-62. Retired 1880. Originally an entomologist (after training as an architect). Appointed museum curator at the Royal Institution at Liverpool in 1835. First curator of Zoological Society's museum 1836-1843. Examined Darwin's South American mice brought back with the HMS Beagle in 1836, recognizing nineteen new species and one new genus in February 1837. President of the Entomological Society in 1849-50. Vice-president of the Zoological Society in 1862-3.
Relationships	Married Elizabeth Ann Griesbach 1834. Father of Charles Owen Waterhouse.

Catalogue

RefNo	Title
DF/PAL/100/8	Correspondence, incoming
DF/MIN/4/48	Copies of draft progress reports, memoranda and official letters relating to minerals, 1851-1858, addressed to the Trustees by George Waterhouse
DF/MIN/4/49	Copies and originals of draft progress reports, memoranda and official letters relating to minerals, 1851, addressed to the Trustees by George Waterhouse
DF/MIN/4/51	Copies and originals of draft progress reports, memoranda and official letters relating to minerals, 1853, addressed to the Trustees by George Waterhouse
DF/PAL/105/2/30	List of fossils sent to G R Waterhouse ... 2 Dec 1872, bought 18 December 1872.
DF/PAL/100/14	Correspondence, incoming
DF/PAL/100/13	Correspondence, incoming
DF/PAL/100/15	Correspondence, incoming
DF/PAL/100/11	Correspondence, incoming
DF/PAL/100/10	Correspondence, incoming
DF/PAL/100/16	Correspondence, incoming
DF/PAL/100/12	Correspondence, incoming
DF/MIN/4/54	Copies and originals of draft progress reports, memoranda and official letters relating to minerals, 1856, addressed to the Trustees by George Waterhouse
DF/MIN/4/53	Copies and originals of draft progress reports, memoranda and official letters relating to minerals, 1855, addressed to the Trustees by George Waterhouse
DF/MIN/4/52	Copies and originals of draft progress reports, memoranda and official letters relating to minerals, 1854, addressed to the Trustees by George Waterhouse
DF/MIN/4/55	Copies and originals of draft progress reports, memoranda and official letters relating to minerals, 1857, addressed to the Trustees by George Waterhouse
DF/PAL/100/9	Correspondence, incoming
DF/PAL/100/7	Correspondence, incoming
DF/PAL/100/17	Correspondence, incoming
DF/MIN/4/50	Copies and originals of draft progress reports, memoranda and official letters relating to minerals, 1852, addressed to the Trustees by George Waterhouse
DF/PAL/105/45	John Gray collection of Silurian fossils: correspondence
DF/PAL/106/15	Staff Diaries: Waterhouse, G R
DF/PAL/120	Palaeontology Early Members of Staff: Correspondence and Papers

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