To M. C. Lloyd 4 August [1869]1
Down. | Beckenham | Kent. S.E.
Aug. 4th
My dear Miss Lloyd
I have thought that you wd. like to see the enclosed letter from Mr B. Dawkins, who has evidently been much pleased by his visit, though in some geological respects not so interesting as he expected.2 There is something wonderfully curious in coming across remains of an old savage progenitor, with their ground-down teeth.—3
Pray believe me | yours truly obliged | Ch. Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Lucas, Peter. 2007. Charles Darwin, ‘little Dawkins’ and the platycnemic Yale men: introducing a bioarchaeological tale of the descent of man. Archives of Natural History 34: 318–45.
Summary
Encloses letter from W. B. Dawkins concerning "our old savage progenitors with their ground-down teeth".
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-6852
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Mary Charlotte Lloyd
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.373)
- Physical description
- ALS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 6852,” accessed on 29 March 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-6852.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 17