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
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On the genealogy of the horse.
Reports on prehistoric finds from caves at Rhagatt.
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.