To W. B. Dawkins 26 August [1867]
Summary
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.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Boyd Dawkins |
Date: | 26 Aug [1867] |
Classmark: | DAR 249: 79 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5616A |
To W. B. Dawkins 30 [August 1867]
Summary
Suggests Dawkins publish a paper on new facts on changes in the skeletal structure of animals kept but not bred in captivity.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Boyd Dawkins |
Date: | 30 [Aug 1867] |
Classmark: | Yale University Medical Historical Library, Harvey Cushing / John Hay Whitney Medical Library (with Rare Book QH9 D25 859) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5618F |
To W. B. Dawkins 12 April [1871]
Summary
Sends contribution of £5 to Settle Cave Exploration Fund.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Boyd Dawkins |
Date: | 12 Apr [1871] |
Classmark: | Wellcome Collection (MS.7781/1–32 item 22) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6695 |
To W. B. Dawkins 19 July [1869]
Summary
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.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Boyd Dawkins |
Date: | 19 July [1869] |
Classmark: | Phillips, Son and Neale (dealers) (24 October 1985) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6836A |
To W. B. Dawkins 14 July [1869]
Summary
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.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Boyd Dawkins |
Date: | 14 July [1869] |
Classmark: | Skinner, Inc. (dealers) (15 November 2009) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6857F |
To W. B. Dawkins 3 February 1873
Summary
A letter of recommendation for W. B. Dawkins in his application for the Woodwardian professorship of geology in the university of Cambridge.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Boyd Dawkins |
Date: | 3 Feb 1873 |
Classmark: | Cambridge University Archives (GEOL 9/*1 2b) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8757F |
To W. B. Dawkins 18 October [1874]
Summary
Thanks WBD for his book, Cave hunting (1874).
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Boyd Dawkins |
Date: | 18 Oct [1874] |
Classmark: | Buxton Museum and Art Gallery |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9682 |
To W. B. Dawkins 16 January [1875]
Summary
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 |
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 |
From William Boyd Dawkins 22 August 1867
Summary
On the breeding out of horns in Galloway cattle.
Has a finely graded series linking the dentition of the rhinoceros with that of the Palaeotherium of the Eocene.
Author: | William Boyd Dawkins |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 22 Aug 1867 |
Classmark: | DAR 162: 117 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5614 |
From W. B. Dawkins 27 August 1867
Summary
Thanks for CD’s letter; hopes by his work to add one grain of proof to CD’s theories.
Author: | William Boyd Dawkins |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 27 Aug 1867 |
Classmark: | DAR 162: 118 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5618 |
From W. B. Dawkins 7 September 1867
Summary
Variation between individuals of a species.
Author: | William Boyd Dawkins |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 Sept 1867 |
Classmark: | DAR 162: 119 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5623 |
From William Boyd Dawkins 31 January 1868
Summary
Thanks for copy of CD’s latest book [Variation].
European converts to CD’s theory.
Author: | William Boyd Dawkins |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 31 Jan 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 162: 120 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5823 |
From W. B. Dawkins 15 June 1868
Summary
Variation in recent leonine skeletons.
Miocene fauna of Europe.
Author: | William Boyd Dawkins |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 15 June 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 162: 121 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6244 |
From William Boyd Dawkins 29 January [1870]
Summary
Discovery of skull of "River-bed" race of man near Corwen.
Author: | William Boyd Dawkins |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 29 Jan [1870] |
Classmark: | DAR 162: 122 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6582 |
From W. B. Dawkins 17 July 1869
Summary
On the genealogy of the horse.
Author: | William Boyd Dawkins |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 17 July 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 162: 123 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6834 |
From W. B. Dawkins 31 July 1869
Summary
Reports on prehistoric finds from caves at Rhagatt.
Author: | William Boyd Dawkins |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 31 July 1869 |
Classmark: | The Huntington Library (CB 847) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6847F |
From W. B. Dawkins 19 October 1869
Summary
Reports on his findings in Denbighshire caves ["The Denbighshire caves", Trans. Manchester Geol. Soc. 9 (1869–70): 31–7].
Sends his paper ["On the prae-historic Mammalia in Great Britain", Intellect. Obs. (1868): 403–10].
Has changed his view on the descent of British cattle from the wild aurochs. No evidence that aurochs survived into historic times in Britain.
Author: | William Boyd Dawkins |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 19 Oct 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 162: 124 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6944 |
From W. B. Dawkins 8 February 1871
Summary
The box of bones sent by CD has led to a series of explorations. Reports on Yorkshire cave-hunting.
Author: | William Boyd Dawkins |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 Feb 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 162: 125 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7477 |
From W. B. Dawkins 23 February 1871
Summary
Thanks for the present of CD’s long-expected book [Descent].
Author: | William Boyd Dawkins |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 23 Feb 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 162: 126 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7509 |
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