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 |
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 |
letter | (5) |
Dawkins, W. B. | (3) |
Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
Dawkins, W. B. | (2) |