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.
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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.
Asks CD to sign papers for Royal Society candidacy of W. B. Clarke.
Does not believe CD should place too much faith in statements regarding the continuous interbreeding of the Chillingham cattle.
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 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].
Describes the successful excavation of caves containing interred remains of Neolithic man.
A letter of recommendation for W. B. Dawkins in his application for the Woodwardian professorship of geology in the university of Cambridge.
Asks CD’s support for his application for the Chair of Geology at Oxford.
Wants references to facts quoted in Variation for an essay he is writing on origin of British cattle.
Is glad CD is pleased with his book [Cave hunting (1874)].
Relationship between language and race. The Basques.