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The Charles Darwin Collection
The Darwin Correspondence Project is publishing letters written by and to the naturalist Charles Darwin (1809–1882). Complete transcripts of letters are being made available through the Project’s website (www.darwinproject.ac.uk) after publication in the ongoing print edition of The Correspondence of Charles Darwin (Cambridge University Press 1985–). Metadata and summaries of all known letters (c. 15,000) appear in Ɛpsilon, and the full texts of available letters can also be searched, with links to the full texts.
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).
Asks CD to sign papers for Royal Society candidacy of W. B. Clarke.
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.
Thanks for CD’s letter; hopes by his work to add one grain of proof to CD’s theories.
Variation between individuals of a species.
Thanks for copy of CD’s latest book [Variation].
European converts to CD’s theory.
Variation in recent leonine skeletons.
Miocene fauna of Europe.
Discovery of skull of "River-bed" race of man near Corwen.
On the genealogy of the horse.
Reports on prehistoric finds from caves at Rhagatt.
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.
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].