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To W. B. Dawkins   16 January [1875]

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Can give no more information about white and dark cattle than William Youatt gave in his book on cattle (Youatt 1834).

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Boyd Dawkins
Date:  16 Jan [1875]
Classmark:  Bloomsbury Auctions (dealers) (15 May 2008)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9819F

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  • … To W.  B.  Dawkins   16 January [1875] …
  • … letter and the letter from W.  B.  Dawkins, 15 January 1875 . Dawkins had asked CD for a …
  • … and dark cattle ( letter from W.  B.  Dawkins, 15 January 1875 ). William Youatt . Youatt  …

From W. B. Dawkins   14 March 1875

Summary

Is glad CD is pleased with his book [Cave hunting (1874)].

Relationship between language and race. The Basques.

Author:  William Boyd Dawkins
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  14 Mar 1875
Classmark:  DAR 162: 130
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9887

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  • … From W.  B.  Dawkins   14 March 1875
  • … 1876 ). See letter to W.  B.  Dawkins, 16 January [1875] . Edward Augustus Freeman , …
  • … Youatt . See letter to W.  B.  Dawkins, 16 January [1875] . Dawkins refers to a discussion …

From W. B. Dawkins   15 January 1875

Summary

Wants references to facts quoted in Variation for an essay he is writing on origin of British cattle.

Author:  William Boyd Dawkins
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  15 Jan 1875
Classmark:  DAR 162: 129
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9819

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From W. B. Dawkins   1 December 1875

Summary

Asks CD to sign papers for Royal Society candidacy of W. B. Clarke.

Author:  William Boyd Dawkins
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  1 Dec 1875
Classmark:  DAR 162: 131
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10285

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From James Houston   14 February 1878

Summary

Praise for Descent with slight criticism of CD’s opinion that racial divergence occurred after the continents were settled.

Author:  James Lennox Houston
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  14 Feb 1878
Classmark:  DAR 166: 273
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11359

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  • … of Basque peoples, see Correspondence vol. 23, letter from W. B. Dawkins, 14 March 1875 . …
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