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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
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
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.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Boyd Dawkins
Date:
12 Apr [1871]
Source of text:
Wellcome Collection (MS.7781/1–32 item 22)
Summary:

Sends contribution of £5 to Settle Cave Exploration Fund.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Boyd Dawkins
Date:
3 Feb 1873
Source of text:
Cambridge University Archives (GEOL 9/*1 2b)
Summary:

A letter of recommendation for W. B. Dawkins in his application for the Woodwardian professorship of geology in the university of Cambridge.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Boyd Dawkins
Date:
18 Oct [1874]
Source of text:
Buxton Museum and Art Gallery
Summary:

Thanks WBD for his book, Cave hunting (1874).

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Boyd Dawkins
Date:
16 Jan [1875]
Source of text:
Bloomsbury Auctions (dealers) (15 May 2008)
Summary:

Can give no more information about white and dark cattle than William Youatt gave in his book on cattle (Youatt 1834).

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Storer
To:
William Boyd Dawkins
Date:
[before 3 Oct 1875]
Source of text:
DAR 177: 343 (fragile)
Summary:

Does not believe CD should place too much faith in statements regarding the continuous interbreeding of the Chillingham cattle.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project