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BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES. 
Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania ; of the Yorkshire Philo- 
sophical Society ; of the Blackmore Museum, Salisbury ; and of the 
Norfolk and Norwich Museum. 
His life was a singularly busy one and so entirely devoted to the 
fulfihnent of his numerous official duties that of his private life there 
is very little to record. Upon all occasions his manner was kindly, 
obliging, and courteous to an extent which endeared him to all who 
knew him. He was an earnest and laborious student, but ever ready 
to meet any demand made from any source upon his stores of 
scientific knowledge, especially in aiding the promotion of science in 
any of its departments. 
John Waterhouse, F.R.S. 
This notice was written by Mr. F. H. Bowman, D.Sc, F.R.S. Ed., 
a friend and associate of the late Mr. Waterhouse, for the obituary 
of the Geological Society, from which it has been mainly derived for 
the present work. 
John Waterhouse, F.R.S., F.G.S., was born at Halifax, York- 
shire, on the tSrd August, 1806. Very early in life he evinced a 
decided taste for scientific studies, and the training which he received 
at school only served to increase this preference, and enabled him to 
obtain a sufficient knowledge of mathematical science, which he turned 
to good account in after years in various branches of physical 
research to which he gave attention. A certain weakness of consti- 
tution, which prevented him in his youth from great physical exer- 
tion, only seemed to stimulate his mental activity ; and, when in 
search of change of climate with a view to invigorate his health, he 
undertook a voyage round the world, the training which he had 
received and the bent of his mind enabled him to record his observa- 
tions in a journal which is a storehouse of scientific facts and notices, 
and which, had his modesty not shrunk from having it printed, would 
have proved a record of a scientific expedition, when such journeys 
were far less numerous than at present and attended by far greater 
inconveniences. During this voyage his love of nature and wide 
range of his scientific tastes acquired an increased stimulus, and when 
he returned home his experience in observation and his knowledge of 
