Roberts. Naturalist. Roberts's H.W. article, which deals with teredos, arrived at the editorial office "per Frank Buckland." Buckland reprinted it in his Curiosities of Natural History, 2nd ser. (1860), stating that Roberts had published it in H.W. and that it was the result "of much patient investigation." Various observations on sea creatures that Buckland recorded in the first two series of Curiosities had come to him, he stated, from Roberts. Roberts had also furnished some information on Pholas to Buckland's father, Dr. WilIiam Buckland. Buckland referred to Roberts as "my learned informant and friend" and as "a great observer" of natural phenomena. He mentioned Roberts's having lived at Lyme Regis, then at Worthing and at Dover.

      Roberts may be the George Roberts who published Topography and Natural History of Lofthouse and Its Neighbourhood; with the Diary of a Naturalist and Rural Notes, 2 vols., 1882–85. In the "Natural History" section of the book, Roberts cites a comment from Buckland's Curiosities, 1st ser. 

Author: Anne Lohrli; © University of Toronto Press, 1971