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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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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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Sends contribution of £5 to Settle Cave Exploration Fund.

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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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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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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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Thanks WBD for his book, Cave hunting (1874).

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

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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.

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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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Variation between individuals of a species.

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Thanks for copy of CD’s latest book [Variation].

European converts to CD’s theory.

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Variation in recent leonine skeletons.

Miocene fauna of Europe.

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

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On the genealogy of the horse.

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Reports on prehistoric finds from caves at Rhagatt.

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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.

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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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Thanks for the present of CD’s long-expected book [Descent].