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From:
William Boyd Dawkins
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Dec 1875
Source of text:
DAR 162: 131
Summary:

Asks CD to sign papers for Royal Society candidacy of W. B. Clarke.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Storer
To:
William Boyd Dawkins
Date:
[before 3 Oct 1875]
Source of text:
DAR 177: 343 (fragile)
Summary:

Does not believe CD should place too much faith in statements regarding the continuous interbreeding of the Chillingham cattle.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Boyd Dawkins
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Jan [1870]
Source of text:
DAR 162: 122
Summary:

Discovery of skull of "River-bed" race of man near Corwen.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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
From:
William Boyd Dawkins
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Feb 1871
Source of text:
DAR 162: 125
Summary:

The box of bones sent by CD has led to a series of explorations. Reports on Yorkshire cave-hunting.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Boyd Dawkins
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Feb 1871
Source of text:
DAR 162: 126
Summary:

Thanks for the present of CD’s long-expected book [Descent].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Boyd Dawkins
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Aug 1871
Source of text:
DAR 162: 127
Summary:

Describes the successful excavation of caves containing interred remains of Neolithic man.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Boyd Dawkins
Date:
3 Feb 1873
Source of text:
Cambridge University Archives (GEOL 9/*1 2b)
Summary:

A letter of recommendation for W. B. Dawkins in his application for the Woodwardian professorship of geology in the university of Cambridge.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Boyd Dawkins
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Apr 1874
Source of text:
DAR 162: 128
Summary:

Asks CD’s support for his application for the Chair of Geology at Oxford.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Boyd Dawkins
Date:
18 Oct [1874]
Source of text:
Buxton Museum and Art Gallery
Summary:

Thanks WBD for his book, Cave hunting (1874).

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Boyd Dawkins
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Jan 1875
Source of text:
DAR 162: 129
Summary:

Wants references to facts quoted in Variation for an essay he is writing on origin of British cattle.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Boyd Dawkins
Date:
16 Jan [1875]
Source of text:
Bloomsbury Auctions (dealers) (15 May 2008)
Summary:

Can give no more information about white and dark cattle than William Youatt gave in his book on cattle (Youatt 1834).

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Boyd Dawkins
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Mar 1875
Source of text:
DAR 162: 130
Summary:

Is glad CD is pleased with his book [Cave hunting (1874)].

Relationship between language and race. The Basques.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project