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APPENDIX. 
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MEMOIR OF GEORGE ROBERT WATERHOUSE. 
BY HIS SON 
CHARLES OWEN WATERHOUSE. 
Grorce Ropert WatERHOUSE was born at Somers Town 
on March 6th, 1810. When a child he appears to have 
had a fancy for straying from home, and an advertise- 
ment for his recovery on one of these occasions (when 
he was two years old) is still in the possession of his 
family. This fancy had an important bearing on his 
after life, as on one occasion he was found by a Mr. 
Irwin, who thus became acquainted with his father, and 
later on (in 1821) advised his being sent to a school at 
Kekelberg, near Brussels, close to which Mr. Irwin had 
a house. Whatever may have been the character of the 
education received (and in one of his early letters he 
complains greatly of his school, styling it a prison— 
‘*a prison I may justly call it, as we have eleven hours’ 
class in a day’’), there is no doubt that the knowledge 
of French acquired was of the greatest service to him in 
his after life as a naturalist, in his frequent visits to 
Paris, and in his voluminous correspondence and con- 
stant intercourse with French naturalists who visited 
him, to whom he was always ready to offer every hos- 
pitality and any assistance in his power. 
A taste for Entomology (inherited from his father, 
who was a lepidopterist), developed itself at an early 
age ; and in a note-book, in which he recorded incidents 
of his life, he mentions the indelible impression made 
on his mind by the capture of a pair of poplar hawk- 
moths on some trees in a nurseryman’s garden (a spot 
now occupied by New St. Pancras Church), which was 
opposite to the house in which he then lived. Being a 
child, he placed them in a bird-cage. In a letter dated 
