From William Boyd Dawkins 31 January 1868
Temple Mount, Belvedere, Kent
31. January. 1868.
My dear Sir,
I cannot adequately express my thanks to you for the copy of your last great work which you were so kind as to send me.1 I value it most highly not only for its own sake, but because you sent it.
The views advocated in the origin are becoming cosmopolitan. Dr. Middendorf (Sibirische Reise) in Russia, is a convert,2 M. Gaudry (Fauna animaux foss. de l’Attique) in France,3 and Dr. Rutimeyer in Switzerland;4 the second sorely against his will. M. Gaudry’s book is the most important monograph on late Meiocene mammals yet printed. Many of the missing links are found, and especially those binding Mustela and Viverra to Hyæna.5
I am | My dear Sir | Yours truly | W. Boyd Dawkins
Charles Darwin Esq F.R.S.
Footnotes
Bibliography
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Gaudry, Albert. 1862–7. Animaux fossiles et géologie de l’Attique, d’après les recherches faites en 1855–56 et en 1860 sous les auspices de l’Académie des Sciences. 1 vol. and atlas. Paris: Libraire de la Société Géologique de France.
Middendorf, Aleksandr Fedorovich. 1848–75. Reise in den äussersten Norden und Osten Sibiriens während der Jahre 1843 und 1844 mit allerhöchster Genehmigung auf Veranstaltung der kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu St. Petersburg ausgeführt und in Verbindung mit vielen Gelehrten herausgegeben. 4 vols. St Petersburg.
Todes, Daniel P. 1989. Darwin without Malthus. The struggle for existence in Russian evolutionary thought. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Vucinich, Alexander. 1988. Darwin in Russian thought. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Summary
Thanks for copy of CD’s latest book [Variation].
European converts to CD’s theory.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-5823
- From
- William Boyd Dawkins
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- Belvedere
- Source of text
- DAR 162: 120
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 5823,” accessed on 23 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-5823.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 16