Charles Owen Waterhouse was an English

England

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 entomologist who specialised in Coleoptera.

Waterhouse was an Assistant Keeper at the British Museum (Natural History

Natural History Museum

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, London

London

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. He wrote the Buprestidae part of Frederick DuCane Godman

Frederick DuCane Godman

Frederick DuCane Godman D.C.L., F.R.S., F.L.S., F.G.S., F.R.G.S., F.E.S., F.Z.S., M.R.I., F.R.H.S., M.B.O.U. was an English lepidopterist, entomologist and ornithologist....

 and Osbert Salvin

Osbert Salvin

Osbert Salvin FRS was an English naturalist, best known for co-authoring Biologia Centrali-Americana with Frederick DuCane Godman. This was a 52 volume encyclopedia on the natural history of Central America....

 's, Biologia Centrali-Americana (1889) and very many papers on the worldwide beetle collections of the museum, describing hundreds of new species

Species

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He was President of the Royal Entomological Society (1907-1908).