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Thanks for CD’s letter; hopes by his work to add one grain of proof to CD’s theories.

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The box of bones sent by CD has led to a series of explorations. Reports on Yorkshire cave-hunting.

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Encloses letter from W. B. Dawkins concerning "our old savage progenitors with their ground-down teeth".

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Forwards letter from W. B. Dawkins. The bones, though not themselves interesting, may indicate the work of prehistoric man.

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Suggests Dawkins publish a paper on new facts on changes in the skeletal structure of animals kept but not bred in captivity.

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Thanks for information on Galloway cattle. [See 5614.]

Interested in WBD’s work on descent of the rhinoceros; is pleased to learn that he does not consider species to be immutable.

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Variation in recent leonine skeletons.

Miocene fauna of Europe.

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Admits that he had disobeyed his instructions and dispatched a box of bones to him by rail. Gives an account of the discovery of the bones at Perth y Chwaril on the Rhagatt estate. He has promised Miss Lloyd to obtain from WBD the English names of the principal bones.

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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).

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Variation between individuals of a species.

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Reports on prehistoric finds from caves at Rhagatt.

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Is glad and proud to honour the memory of Adam Sedgwick [d. 1873].

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Describes the successful excavation of caves containing interred remains of Neolithic man.

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Sends a lower molar of fossil horse from Quito. Curious as to its species, especially in view of Owen’s findings in Mexico.

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Sends Ernst Haeckel’s [Generelle] Morphologie [1866] and C. K. Sprengel’s book [Entdeckte Geheimniss der Natur (1793)].

A. Gaudry and L. Rütimeyer have declared in favour of CD’s views.

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A letter of recommendation for W. B. Dawkins in his application for the Woodwardian professorship of geology in the university of Cambridge.

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

Relationship between language and race. The Basques.

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Discovery of skull of "River-bed" race of man near Corwen.

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Knows Dawkins interested in cave animals; has just heard from a Lloyd of Rhaggatt that a fissure has opened full of bones and teeth. Will send some.

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Is disappointed at high price, 7s 6d, being considered for the cheap edition of the Origin [6th ed.]. Has been told that, in Lancashire, workmen club together to buy the Origin.

Little chance that Expression will be done this autumn.