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From:
William Boyd Dawkins
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Aug 1867
Source of text:
DAR 162: 117
Summary:

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.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Boyd Dawkins
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Aug 1867
Source of text:
DAR 162: 118
Summary:

Thanks for CD’s letter; hopes by his work to add one grain of proof to CD’s theories.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Boyd Dawkins
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Sept 1867
Source of text:
DAR 162: 119
Summary:

Variation between individuals of a species.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Boyd Dawkins
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 Jan 1868
Source of text:
DAR 162: 120
Summary:

Thanks for copy of CD’s latest book [Variation].

European converts to CD’s theory.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Boyd Dawkins
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 June 1868
Source of text:
DAR 162: 121
Summary:

Variation in recent leonine skeletons.

Miocene fauna of Europe.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Boyd Dawkins
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 July 1869
Source of text:
DAR 162: 123
Summary:

On the genealogy of the horse.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Boyd Dawkins
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 July 1869
Source of text:
The Huntington Library (CB 847)
Summary:

Reports on prehistoric finds from caves at Rhagatt.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Boyd Dawkins
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Oct 1869
Source of text:
DAR 162: 124
Summary:

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.

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:
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:
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:
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:
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
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