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 |
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Darwin, C. R. | (8) |
Dawkins, W. B. | (8) |