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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Boyd Dawkins
Date:
14 July [1869]
Source of text:
Skinner, Inc. (dealers) (15 November 2009)
Summary:

Knows Dawkins interested in cave animals; has just heard from a Lloyd of Rhaggatt that a fissure has opened full of bones and teeth. Will send some.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Boyd Dawkins
Date:
19 July [1869]
Source of text:
Phillips, Son and Neale (dealers) (24 October 1985)
Summary:

Admits that he had disobeyed his instructions and dispatched a box of bones to him by rail. Gives an account of the discovery of the bones at Perth y Chwaril on the Rhagatt estate. He has promised Miss Lloyd to obtain from WBD the English names of the principal bones.

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Darwin Correspondence Project