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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-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-6857F

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

DCP-LETT-6836A

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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