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DCP-LETT-5614

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

DCP-LETT-5616A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Boyd Dawkins
Date:
26 Aug [1867]
Source of text:
DAR 249: 79
Summary:

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.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5618

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

DCP-LETT-5618F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Boyd Dawkins
Date:
30 [Aug 1867]
Source of text:
Yale University Medical Historical Library, Harvey Cushing / John Hay Whitney Medical Library (with Rare Book QH9 D25 859)
Summary:

Suggests Dawkins publish a paper on new facts on changes in the skeletal structure of animals kept but not bred in captivity.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5623

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
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