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