Memoir of George Robert Waterhouse. Ixxi 
May, 1824, from Keekelberg, he writes to his father :— 
‘“*T have not got many moths as yet, but luckily a great 
many beetles. I hope to get more moths as the season 
advances. I shall want more cork, pins, and another 
large box, with as many small ones as you can send.” 
Almost immediately after this, however, he returned 
to England, and was articled to an architect, but devoted 
his spare time to the study of Natural History. He 
appears only to have followed this profession between 
the years 1831—1835; the only recorded works being 
the building of a house in King’s Road, Chelsea, the 
laying out of Charles Knight’s garden in the Vale of 
Health, Hampstead, and the designing of the orna- 
mentation of St. Dunstan’s Church. No doubt his 
training as an architect was of value to him as a 
naturalist ; his eye, accustomed to designing ornaments, 
at which he was very skilful, enabled him to notice and 
appreciate differences in form in insects, &c. He was 
also able to make his own drawings, several of his 
papers being illustrated by himself. It is not unlikely, 
moreover, that the ‘‘nervous striving at scientific 
accuracy in all his writings,’ which has been noticed 
as one of his peculiarities by one writer, may have 
arisen from the same cause. 
In his note-book, already referred to, he has an entry 
under the year 1883 as follows :—‘‘ The great event of 
‘“‘this year, to me, was the establishment of the Entomo- 
“logical Society. Talking about entomological subjects 
‘at home one evening, my father said, ‘ Why do not you 
‘entomologists form a society ?’ Full of theidea, I went 
“to Mr. Hope next day (I saw him almost daily at this 
‘time, and, indeed, arranged his collection of British 
“Coleoptera for him), and told him of my father’s 
‘suggestion. The idea pleased him, and he immediately 
‘communicated with some of the leading entomologists. 
“A meeting was called at the ‘Thatched House,’ St. 
‘‘James’s Street, soon afterwards (May 22nd, 1888), 
‘‘and the Society was then established, and I was elected 
‘honorary curator.” 
For a long time he was engaged in writing articles on 
mammals, fishes, and insects in Knight’s ‘ Penny Cyclo- 
edia.’ 
. In 1835 he accepted the appointment of Curator to 
the Museum of the Royal Institute at Liverpool, which 
