Letter, from George Robert Waterhouse to Sir John Herschel, dated at London Autograph letter signed by sender. Received John Frederick William Herschel's collection of African insects, etc. Describes its luminous molluscs, crustaceans, Hottentot fish. Government granted £1500 to [William?] Smith and £1000 to C. R. Darwin to publish discoveries, and £500 to the Royal Astronomical Society [Elizabeth Ann Waterhouse adds 1.5 pages to Margaret Brodie Herschel about birth of EW's second daughter, deaths in family.] 20 September 1837