From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Boyd Dawkins
Date:
12 Apr [1871]
Source of text:
Wellcome Collection (MS.7781/1–32 item 22)
Summary:
Sends contribution of £5 to Settle Cave Exploration Fund.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Sends contribution of £5 to Settle Cave Exploration Fund.
The box of bones sent by CD has led to a series of explorations. Reports on Yorkshire cave-hunting.
Thanks for the present of CD’s long-expected book [Descent].
Describes the successful excavation of caves containing interred remains of Neolithic man.