Jonathan Couch Papers
1839-1891
(1 linear foot)

B C831

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Table of contents Abstract
In many ways, Jonathan Couch was a prototype of the Victorian provincial naturalist, a trained physician whose eclectic, but intensely local interests ran from the life sciences to geology, Cornish folk beliefs, and local history. His major works included a three-volume translation of Pliny's Natural History (London, 1847-1849) published by the Wernerian Club of London, The History of Polperro (Truro, 1871), and the exhaustive four-volume A History of the Fishes of the British Islands (London, 1862-1868).

The remnants of a wide-ranging mind, the Couch Papers contain a sampling of correspondence, rough drafts of articles, and notes on a variety of topics of interest to the Cornish naturalist and antiquarian, Jonathan Couch. The bulk of the correspondence relates to Couch's translation of Pliny's Natural History, published by the Wernerian Club of London between 1847 and 1849. The notes are highly diverse, but include some systematic descriptions of fishes, probably used in his A History of the Fishes of the British Islands and notes Cornish folk beliefs. Of particular interest are his "Notes connected with instinct and reason" and three manuscripts relating to evolutionism: "Enquiry into the circumstances...," "On the history and development of man," and "The Natural History of the Creation of the World, with its changes to the subsidence of the flood and Noah."
Background note
Pelicans (sketch by Jonathan Couch)
Pelicans (sketch by Jonathan Couch)
In many ways, Jonathan Couch was a prototype of the Victorian provincial naturalist, a trained physician whose eclectic, but intensely local interests ran from the life sciences to geology, folk beliefs, and local history. The only child of Richard Couch and Phillipa Minards, Couch was born on March 15, 1789, at Polperro, a fishing village on the Cornish coast. After receiving a sound classical education at the Dame School and later at Bodmin Grammar School, Couch began a medical apprenticeship under Dr. John Rice of East Looe in 1803, and from 1808 to 1810, he completed his medical studies at the united St. Guy's and St. Thomas' Hospital in London. Returning to Polperro to practice medicine, Couch seldom again left Cornwall.

Despite the burdens of a busy medical practice, Couch began exploring an array of topics of antiquarian and natural historical interest from almost the moment of his return home. Bracketed by a profoundly local perspective, his interests ran the gamut from history and archaeology to Cornish folk beliefs, dialect, and the local flora and fauna. He became best known for his work on the life-blood of Polperro, its fisheries. Training the local fishermen to make natural historical observations and to assist him in bringing in rare specimens, Couch dissected and illustrated hundreds of fish over more than three decades of research, taking meticulous care to depict the colors of the live fish as accurately as possible. In recognition of his contributions, he was made a fellow of the Linnaean Society.

Couch was a regular contributor to several journals, including the Imperial Magazine, the Transactions and Proceedings of the Linnaean Society, and the Annals and Magazine of Natural History. His major publications include A Cornish Fauna (Truro, 1838, 1841), a three-volume translation of Pliny's Natural History (London, 1847-1849) published by the Wernerian Club of London, and the posthumously published The History of Polperro (Truro, 1871). His most important publication was the exhaustive four-volume History of the Fishes of the British Islands (London, 1860-1865), a seminal work that contained over 250 colored plates.

Thrice married, Couch was followed in medicine by all three of his sons, and his eldest son, Richard Quiller Couch, became a noted naturalist in his own right. Couch died in Polperro in 1870 at the age of 81.


Scope and content
The remnants of a wide-ranging mind, the Couch Papers contain a sampling of correspondence, rough drafts of articles, and miscellaneous notes on a variety of topics of interest to Jonathan Couch, the Cornish naturalist and antiquarian. The bulk of the correspondence relates to Couch's translation of Pliny's Natural History, published by the Wernerian Club of London between 1847 and 1849. The notes are highly eclectic, but include some systematic descriptions of fishes, probably used in his A History of the Fishes of the British Islands and notes Cornish folk beliefs.

Of particular interest are Couch's "Notes connected with instinct and reason" (see also his "Habits of the diadem spider") and three manuscripts relating to evolutionism and human origins: "Enquiry into the circumstances...," "On the history and development of man," and "The Natural History of the Creation of the World, with its changes to the subsidence of the flood and Noah." Although somewhat fragmentary, his notes on dreams are a valuable complement to a similar manuscript held in the Linnaean Society of London.

Administrative information
Restrictions
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Provenance
Acquired from Winifred Myers, 1980 (accn. no. 1980-1310ms).

Preferred citation
Cite as: Jonathan Couch Papers, American Philosophical Society.

Processing information
Recatalogued by rsc, 2003.

Additional information
Related material
The manuscript of Couch's Natural History of Cornish Fishes (1844) is held in the Kienbusch Angling Collection at Princeton University.

Couch's notebook of medical lectures, 1808-1847, kept during and after his study at Guy's and St. Thomas' Hospital in London, is housed in the Special Collections Deparment, Duke University Library.

Additional Couch manuscripts are located in the collections of the Linnaean Society of London.

References
Couch, Jonathan, A History of the Fishes of the British Islands, 4 vols. (London, 1877). Call no.: 597.0942 C83h v.1-4.

Couch, Bertha, Life of Jonathan Couch, FLS, etc., of Polperro, the Cornish Ichthyologist (Liskeard, 1891)

Tucker, Denys W., "A Cornish Ichthyologist in fact and fiction: 'Q' (Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch) on his Grandfather Jonathan Couch (1789-1870)" Society for the Bibliography of Natural History (1956): 137-151.

Added entries
Subjects
  • Astronomy--Great Britain--19th century
  • Conchology--Great Britain
  • Cornwall--Description and travel
  • Creationism
  • Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882
  • Developmental biology--Great Britain
  • Dreams
  • Evolution (Biology)
  • Fisheries--Great Britain
  • Fishes--Great Britain
  • Human evolution
  • Instinct
  • Natural history--Great Britain--19th century
  • Pliny the Younger
  • Superstition--Great Britain
  • Zoology--Great Britain

    • Contributors
  • Couch, Jonathan, 1789-1870
  • Cowper, B. Harris (Benjamin Harris)
  • Dunn, Matthias
  • Exeter, Jonathan
  • Fulcher, Thomas
  • Greenough, George Bellas, 1778-1855
  • Hardy, James
  • Herschel, John F. W. (John Frederick William), 1792-1871
  • Hocken, Edward Octavius
  • Moxon, Charles
  • Munford, George, 1794-1871
  • Peach, Charles William, 1800-1886
  • Saunders, Robert
  • Slater, J. W. (John William)
  • Sole, Edward
  • Watkins, Henry
  • Wernerian Club (London, England)

    • Genre terms
  • Pen works
  • Photographs

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    Detailed inventory

    		 Series I. Correspondence 1839-1891 47 folders

    		Couch, Jonathan.
    ADf to William Gladstone     		n.d. 1p. Box 1

    		Couch, Jonathan.
    ADf to Great Britain. Board of Trade. Commissioners     		1868 June 14 1p. Box 1

    		Couch, Jonathan.
    ADf to Great Britain. Treasury. Lords Council     		1846 Sept. 6 1p. Box 1

    		Couch, Jonathan.
    ADf to Mr. Wheelwright     		1861 March 2p. Box 1

    		Couch, Jonathan.
    ADf to Great Britain. Board of Trade. Commissioners     		1868 June 14 1p. Box 1

    		Couch, William.
    ALS to Jonathan Couch     		1852 Dec. 27 3p. Box 1

    		Cowper, Benjamin Harris.
    ALS to "Mr dear friend"     		1891 Nov. 28 3p. Box 1

    		Dunn, Matthias.
    ALS to Jonathan Couch     		1866 June 15 3p. Box 1

    		Exeter, Jonathan.
    ALS Cy to Charles Godolphin     		n.d. 4p. Box 1

    		In Couch's hand.

    		Fulcher, Thomas.
    ALsS to Jonathan Couch     		1846 2 items Box 1

    		Fulcher, Thomas.
    ALS to Jonathan Couch     		1846 Oct. 10 2p. Box 1

    		Fulcher, Thomas.
    ALS to Jonathan Couch     		1846 Dec. 7 2p. Box 1

    		Greenough, George Bellas.
    ALS to Charles Moxon     		n.d. 1p. Box 1

    		Probably originally enclosed in Moxon to Couch, 1846 October 2.

    		Hardy, James.
    ALS to Jonathan Couch(?)     		n.d. 4p. Box 1

    		Herschel, John F. W..
    ALS to Charles Moxon     		1866 Dec. 26 2p. Box 1

    		Hocken, E. O..
    ALsS to Jonathan Couch     		1870, n.d. 2 items Box 1

    		Hocken, E. O..
    ALS to Jonathan Couch(?)     		1870 June 29 4p. Box 1

    		Hocken, E. O..
    ALS to Jonathan Couch (incomplete)     		n.d. 2p. Box 1

    		Moxon, Charles.
    ALsS to Jonathan Couch     		1846-1848 55 items Box 1

    		Moxon, Charles.
    ALS to Jonathan Couch     		1846 March 10 4p. Box 1

    		Moxon, Charles.
    ALS to Jonathan Couch     		1846 June 16 4p. Box 1

    		Moxon, Charles.
    ALS to Jonathan Couch     		1846 June 22 2p. Box 1

    		Moxon, Charles.
    ALS to Jonathan Couch     		1846 October 2 1p. Box 1

    		Moxon, Charles.
    ALS to Jonathan Couch     		1846 October 8 3p. Box 1

    		Moxon, Charles.
    ALS to Jonathan Couch     		1846 October 15 3p. Box 1

    		Moxon, Charles.
    ALS to Jonathan Couch     		1846 October 17 2p. Box 1

    		Moxon, Charles.
    ALS to Jonathan Couch     		1846 Nov. 5 4p. Box 1

    		Moxon, Charles.
    ALS to Jonathan Couch     		1846 Nov. 11 3p. Box 1

    		Moxon, Charles.
    ALS to Jonathan Couch     		1846 Nov. 14 2p. Box 1

    		Moxon, Charles.
    ALS to Jonathan Couch     		1846 Nov. 26 2p. Box 1

    		Moxon, Charles.
    ALS to Jonathan Couch     		1846 Dec. 2 4p. Box 1

    		Moxon, Charles.
    ALS to Jonathan Couch     		1846 Dec. 8 3p. Box 1

    		Moxon, Charles.
    ALS to Jonathan Couch     		1846 Dec. 10 3p. Box 1

    		Moxon, Charles.
    ALS to Jonathan Couch     		1846 Dec. 11 2p. Box 1

    		Moxon, Charles.
    ALS to Jonathan Couch     		1846 Dec. 18 4p. Box 1

    		Moxon, Charles.
    ALS to Jonathan Couch     		1846 Dec. 26 4p. Box 1

    		Moxon, Charles.
    ALS to Jonathan Couch     		1846 Dec. 29 1p. Box 1

    		Moxon, Charles.
    ALS to Jonathan Couch     		1847 Jan. 5 4p. Box 1

    		Moxon, Charles.
    ALS to Jonathan Couch     		1847 Jan. 14 1p. Box 1

    		Moxon, Charles.
    ALS to Jonathan Couch     		1847 Jan. 20 2p. Box 1

    		Moxon, Charles.
    ALS to Jonathan Couch     		1847 March 30 4p. Box 1

    		Moxon, Charles.
    ALS to Jonathan Couch     		1847 April 14 3p. Box 1

    		Moxon, Charles.
    ALS to Jonathan Couch     		1847 April 27 1p. Box 1

    		Moxon, Charles.
    ALS to Jonathan Couch     		1847 May 26 2p. Box 1

    		Moxon, Charles.
    ALS to Jonathan Couch     		1847 June 7 1p. Box 1

    		Moxon, Charles.
    ALS to Jonathan Couch     		1847 June 8 1p. Box 1

    		Moxon, Charles.
    ALS to Jonathan Couch     		1847 June 18 1p. Box 1

    		Moxon, Charles.
    ALS to Jonathan Couch     		1847 June 21 4p. Box 1

    		Moxon, Charles.
    ALS to Jonathan Couch     		1847 June 25 3p. Box 1

    		Moxon, Charles.
    ALS to Jonathan Couch     		1847 July 1 1p. Box 1

    		Moxon, Charles.
    ALS to Jonathan Couch     		1847 July 7 4p. Box 1

    		Moxon, Charles.
    ALS to Jonathan Couch     		1847 July 18 2p. Box 1

    		Moxon, Charles.
    ALS to Jonathan Couch     		1847 July 22 4p. Box 1

    		Moxon, Charles.
    ALS to Jonathan Couch     		1847 Aug. 10 1p. Box 1

    		Moxon, Charles.
    ALS to Jonathan Couch     		1847 Sept. 3 1p. Box 1

    		Moxon, Charles.
    ALS to Jonathan Couch     		1847 Sept. 6 1p. Box 1

    		Moxon, Charles.
    ALS to Jonathan Couch     		1847 Sept. 15 1p. Box 1

    		Moxon, Charles.
    ALS to Jonathan Couch     		1847 Sept. 22 1p. Box 1

    		Moxon, Charles.
    ALS to Jonathan Couch     		1847 Oct. 27 3p. Box 1

    		Moxon, Charles.
    ALS to Jonathan Couch     		1847 Dec. 24 3p. Box 1

    		Moxon, Charles.
    ALS to Jonathan Couch     		1848 Jan. 1 2p. Box 1

    		Moxon, Charles.
    ALS to Jonathan Couch     		1848 Jan. 21 3p. Box 1

    		Moxon, Charles.
    ALS to Jonathan Couch     		1848 March 16 2p. Box 1

    		Moxon, Charles.
    ALS to Jonathan Couch     		1848 May 2 3p. Box 1

    		Moxon, Charles.
    ALS to Jonathan Couch     		1848 June 2 2p. Box 1

    		Moxon, Charles.
    ALS to Jonathan Couch     		1848 June 14 2p. Box 1

    		Moxon, Charles.
    ALS to Jonathan Couch     		1848 July 23 1p. Box 1

    		Moxon, Charles.
    ALS to Jonathan Couch     		1848 Sept. 2 2p. Box 1

    		Moxon, Charles.
    ALS to Jonathan Couch     		1848 Sept. 5 1p. Box 1

    		Moxon, Charles.
    ALS to Jonathan Couch     		1848 Oct. 19 2p. Box 1

    		Moxon, Charles.
    ALS to Jonathan Couch     		1848 Nov. 11 2p. Box 1

    		Moxon, Charles.
    ALS to Jonathan Couch     		1848 Nov. 14 1p. Box 1

    		Moxon, Charles.
    ALS to Jonathan Couch     		1848 Dec. 6 3p. Box 1

    		Moxon, Charles.
    ALS to Jonathan Couch     		n.d. 4p. Box 1

    		Munford, George.
    ALsS to Jonathan Couch     		1846-1849 17 items Box 1

    		Munford, George.
    ALS to Jonathan Couch     		1846 Nov. 12 3p. Box 1

    		Munford, George.
    ALS to Jonathan Couch     		1846 Nov. 14 3p. Box 1

    		Munford, George.
    ALS to Jonathan Couch     		1846 Nov. 25 2p. Box 1

    		Munford, George.
    ALS to Jonathan Couch     		1846 Dec. 18 1p. Box 1

    		Munford, George.
    ALS to Jonathan Couch     		1846 Dec. 21 4p. Box 1

    		Munford, George.
    ALS to Jonathan Couch     		1846 Dec. 30 2p. Box 1

    		Munford, George.
    ALS to Jonathan Couch     		1847 Jan. 8 1p. Box 1

    		Munford, George.
    ALS to Jonathan Couch     		1847 Jan. 16 4p. Box 1

    		Munford, George.
    ALS to Jonathan Couch     		1847 Nov. 10 3p. Box 1

    		Munford, George.
    ALS to Jonathan Couch     		1848 March 3 4p. Box 1

    		Munford, George.
    ALS to Jonathan Couch     		1848 June 16 2p. Box 1

    		Munford, George.
    ALS to Jonathan Couch     		1848 June 26 2p. Box 1

    		Munford, George.
    ALS to Jonathan Couch     		1848 June 27 1p. Box 1

    		Munford, George.
    ALS to Jonathan Couch     		1848 Nov. 29 4p. Box 1

    		Munford, George.
    ALS to Jonathan Couch     		1848 Dec. 6 3p. Box 1

    		Munford, George.
    ALS to Jonathan Couch     		1849 Jan. 24 3p. Box 1

    		Munford, George.
    ALS to Jonathan Couch     		1849 Feb. 27 4p. Box 1

    		Munford, George.
    ALS to Jonathan Couch     		n.d. 1p. Box 1

    		Peach, Charles William.
    ALS to Jonathan Couch     		1844 March 28 4p. Box 1

    		Saunders, Robert.
    ALS to Jonathan Couch     		1840 Feb. 28 1p. Box 1

    		Slater, J. W..
    ALS to Jonathan Couch     		1848 2 items Box 1

    		Slater, J. W..
    ALS to Jonathan Couch     		1848 Nov. 27 1p. Box 1

    		Slater, J. W..
    ALS to Jonathan Couch     		1848 Dec. 16 1p. Box 1

    		Sole, Edward.
    ALS to Jonathan Couch     		1840 April 10 4p. Box 1

    		Tregenna, Mr..
    ANS     		n.d. 2p. Box 1

    		Trelawny, Anne.
    AMsS poem, "Sir Richard de Cotehele"     		1839 April 2 items (4p., 6p.) Box 1

    		Watkins, Henry.
    ALsS to Jonathan Couch     		1848-1849 5 items Box 1

    		Watkins, Henry.
    ALS to Jonathan Couch     		1848 Jan. 18 1p. Box 1

    		Watkins, Henry.
    ALS to Jonathan Couch     		1848 Jan. 31 2p. Box 1

    		Watkins, Henry.
    ALS to Jonathan Couch     		1848 April 30 2p. Box 1

    		Watkins, Henry.
    ALS to Jonathan Couch     		1848 Nov. 17 2p. Box 1

    		Watkins, Henry.
    ALS to Jonathan Couch     		1849 Feb. 19 2p. Box 1

    		Wernerian Club.
    Printed circulars     		1846-1849 5 items Box 1

    		Unidentified correspondent.
    ALS to Jonathan Couch     		1861 Dec. 26 4p. Box 1

    		Series II. Essays and notes 1855-1867 82 folders Box 1

    		Couch, Jonathan.
    "Ancient British Church"     		n.d. 1 folder Box 1

    		Couch, Jonathan.
    Animals #1     		n.d. 1 folder Box 1

    		Couch, Jonathan.
    Animals #2     		n.d. 1 folder Box 1

    		Couch, Jonathan.
    Animals #3     		n.d. 1 folder Box 1

    		Couch, Jonathan.
    "Axius Leach"     		n.d. 1 folder Box 1

    		Couch, Jonathan.
    "The Ballan wrasse"     		n.d. 1 folder Box 1

    		Couch, Jonathan.
    "Bp. Trelawny"     		n.d. 1 folder Box 1

    		Couch, Jonathan.
    "Borough of East Looe"     		n.d. 1 folder Box 1

    		Couch, Jonathan.
    "C. phasma"     		n.d. 1 folder Box 1

    		Couch, Jonathan.
    "Cataclysm"     		n.d. 1 folder Box 1

    		Couch, Jonathan.
    Chapel affairs     		n.d. 1 folder Box 1

    		Couch, Jonathan.
    Charms, Misc.     		n.d. 1 folder Box 1

    		Couch, Jonathan.
    "The connection of Natural Theology with Revelation"     		n.d. 1 folder Box 1

    		Couch, Jonathan.
    "Corkwing"     		n.d. 1 folder Box 1

    		Couch, Jonathan.
    "The cross buns of Easter"     		n.d. 1 folder Box 1

    		Couch, Jonathan.
    Death     		n.d. 1 folder Box 1

    		Couch, Jonathan.
    Description of Polperro     		n.d. 1 folder Box 1

    		Couch, Jonathan.
    "Development of crustacean animals" with "Decrease of the fisheries"     		n.d. 1 folder Box 1

    		Couch, Jonathan.
    "Dr. Clarke's comment -- Genesis"     		n.d. 1 folder Box 1

    		Couch, Jonathan.
    Dreams, dreaming     		n.d. 1 folder Box 2

    		Couch, Jonathan.
    Elections to Oxford, Cambridge, and Westminster     		1789-1796 1 folder Box 2

    		Couch, Jonathan.
    "An enquiry into the circumstances which are connected with the earlier phenomena of development in several species of animals, with reference also to the growth of plants"     		n.d. 1 folder Box 2

    		Couch, Jonathan.
    "Extract from naturalist's notebook no. 8"     		n.d. 1 folder Box 2

    		Couch, Jonathan.
    "Extracts from the Quarterly Review of Beeker's Gallus and Chariches: or private life of the Greeks and Romans," bound with "The wonders of the little world: or, a general history of man -- by Nath. Wanley, M.A. 1678"     		n.d. 1 folder Box 2

    		Couch, Jonathan.
    Extracts: "Linnaeus dissertation on the sexes of plants -- translated by Sir James E. Smith," with "Ocean telegraphy -- by Dr. Wallich"     		n.d. 1 folder Box 2

    		Couch, Jonathan.
    "The fairy mysis -- Missis Oberon; Mihi"     		n.d. 1 folder Box 2

    		Couch, Jonathan.
    "The green-streaked wrasse"     		n.d. 1 folder Box 2

    		Couch, Jonathan.
    "Habits of the diadem spider," with "The little spider," and "Halibut" with "Salmon"     		n.d. 1 folder Box 2

    		Couch, Jonathan.
    "Harbour crab"     		n.d. 1 folder Box 2

    		Couch, Jonathan.
    "Health of dwellings" with "Health of twons"     		n.d. 1 folder Box 2

    		Couch, Jonathan.
    "Horse"     		n.d. 1 folder Box 2

    		Couch, Jonathan.
    "Isaac Taylor's last testimony"     		1867 Dec. 1 folder Box 2

    		Couch, Jonathan.
    "Language"     		n.d. 1 folder Box 2

    		Couch, Jonathan.
    "Lecture on ancient idolatry"     		n.d. 1 folder Box 2

    		Couch, Jonathan.
    "Lecture on the plagues of Egypt from the Egyptian point of view"     		n.d. 1 folder Box 2

    		Couch, Jonathan.
    "List of the articles from the Royal wardrobe, granted by the first Queen Mary to the Lady Marquess of Exeter"     		n.d. 1 folder Box 2

    		Couch, Jonathan.
    List of words and definitions     		n.d. 1 folder Box 2

    		Couch, Jonathan.
    "Lucon's dialogue" with notes on the sunfish     		n.d. 1 folder Box 2

    		Couch, Jonathan.
    McCaul, Alexander, "The old paths -- Modern Judaism compared with Moses and the prophets"     		n.d. 1 folder Box 2

    		Couch, Jonathan.
    "Marcus Porcius Cato -- de re rustica"     		n.d. 1 folder Box 2

    		Couch, Jonathan.
    "Mechanics Institute"     		n.d. 1 folder Box 2

    		Couch, Jonathan.
    Miscellaneous     		n.d. 1 folder Box 2

    		Couch, Jonathan.
    Misc. notes on Polperro     		n.d. 1 folder Box 2

    		Couch, Jonathan.
    "Mr. Owen on the dodo"     		n.d. 1 folder Box 2

    		Couch, Jonathan.
    "Mysis"     		n.d. 1 folder Box 2

    		Couch, Jonathan.
    "Mysis chamaeleon"     		n.d. 1 folder Box 2

    		Couch, Jonathan.
    "Mysis Lamorna"     		n.d. 1 folder Box 2

    		Couch, Jonathan.
    "The Natural History of the Creation of the World, with its changes to the subsidence of the flood and Noah" with misc. notes on various subjects     		n.d. 1 folder Box 2

    		Couch, Jonathan.
    "Notes connected with instinct and reason"     		n.d. 1 folder Box 2

    		Couch, Jonathan.
    "Notes for circulation of the blood"     		n.d. 1 folder Box 2

    		Couch, Jonathan.
    "Notes from Dr. John Duris' Science of Christian Thought, with notes on fish"     		n.d. 1 folder Box 2

    		Couch, Jonathan.
    Notes on ca.12 books     		n.d. 1 folder Box 2

    		Couch, Jonathan.
    Notes on "Les observations de plusieurs singularités"     		n.d. 1 folder Box 2

    		Couch, Jonathan.
    Notes on Ovid     		n.d. 1 folder Box 2

    		Couch, Jonathan.
    Notes on Pliny     		n.d. 1 folder Box 2

    		Couch, Jonathan.
    Notes on several books     		n.d. 1 folder Box 2

    		Couch, Jonathan.
    "Notes on the natural history of the natterjack"     		n.d. 1 folder Box 2

    		Couch, Jonathan.
    Notes, misc.     		n.d. 1 folder Box 2

    		Couch, Jonathan.
    "On the history and development of man"     		n.d. 1 folder Box 2

    		Couch, Jonathan.
    "Ovid, of the rust in corn"     		n.d. 1 folder Box 2

    		Couch, Jonathan.
    "Palinurus, Fabricius" and "Craw fish; red crab"     		n.d. 1 folder Box 2

    		Couch, Jonathan.
    "Planner's lamprey" with "Notes on Atlantic Cable"     		n.d. 1 folder Box 2

    		Couch, Jonathan.
    "Polybius, Leach" with "Henslow's swimming crab"     		n.d. 1 folder Box 2

    		Couch, Jonathan.
    "Porcellana"     		n.d. 1 folder Box 2

    		Couch, Jonathan.
    "Prehistoric in Cornwall"     		n.d. 1 folder Box 2

    		Couch, Jonathan.
    "Process of development"     		n.d. 1 folder Box 2

    		Couch, Jonathan.
    "Recent speculations on primeval man -- by the Duke of Argyll" with "Primeval man"     		1868 March 1 folder Box 2

    		Couch, Jonathan.
    "The red wrasse or three spotted wrasse"     		n.d. 1 folder Box 2

    		Couch, Jonathan.
    "'Reign of law' in Fortnightly Review," signed by George Henry Lewes     		1867 July 1 1 folder Box 2

    		Couch, Jonathan.
    "Retepora, Lamarck"     		n.d. 1 folder Box 2

    		Couch, Jonathan.
    "Scomberesox"     		n.d. 1 folder Box 2

    		Couch, Jonathan.
    "Septagint"     		n.d. 1 folder Box 2

    		Couch, Jonathan.
    "Sketch of a portion -- of a plot or all the Coast of Cornwall and Devonshire as they were fortified in 1588 against the landing of any enemy"     		n.d. 1 folder Box 2

    		Couch, Jonathan.
    "Stenorhynchus, Lamarck" with "Long-legged spider crab" and "Slender spider crab"     		n.d. 1 folder Box 2

    		Couch, Jonathan.
    "The table crab"     		n.d. 1 folder Box 2

    		Couch, Jonathan.
    "Toads enclosed within the substance of the roots and bodies of trees"     		n.d. 1 folder Box 2

    		Couch, Jonathan.
    "Unity of creation"     		n.d. 1 folder Box 2

    		Couch, Jonathan.
    "A vindication of the probability of the story of Brutus, as related in the ancient history of Britain"     		n.d. 1 folder Box 2

    		Couch, Jonathan.
    "Volcanoes of Auvergne"     		n.d. 1 folder Box 2

    		Couch, Jonathan.
    "Warburton's delegation"     		n.d. 1 folder Box 2

    		Couch, Jonathan.
    Weather observations     		1855 1 folder Box 2

    		Couch, Jonathan.
    "Woodcocks"     		n.d. 1 folder Box 2