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 |
From W. B. Dawkins 27 August 1871
Summary
Describes the successful excavation of caves containing interred remains of Neolithic man.
Author: | William Boyd Dawkins |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 27 Aug 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 162: 127 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7918 |
From W. B. Dawkins 26 April 1874
Summary
Asks CD’s support for his application for the Chair of Geology at Oxford.
Author: | William Boyd Dawkins |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 26 Apr 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 162: 128 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9429 |
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 |
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 |