Does not believe CD should place too much faith in statements regarding the continuous interbreeding of the Chillingham cattle.
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Does not believe CD should place too much faith in statements regarding the continuous interbreeding of the Chillingham cattle.
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.
Suggests Dawkins publish a paper on new facts on changes in the skeletal structure of animals kept but not bred in captivity.
Sends contribution of £5 to Settle Cave Exploration Fund.
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.
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.
A letter of recommendation for W. B. Dawkins in his application for the Woodwardian professorship of geology in the university of Cambridge.
Thanks WBD for his book, Cave hunting (1874).
Can give no more information about white and dark cattle than William Youatt gave in his book on cattle (Youatt 1834).