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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
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:
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
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:
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
From:
William Boyd Dawkins
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 Jan 1868
Source of text:
DAR 162: 120
Summary:

Thanks for copy of CD’s latest book [Variation].

European converts to CD’s theory.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Boyd Dawkins
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 June 1868
Source of text:
DAR 162: 121
Summary:

Variation in recent leonine skeletons.

Miocene fauna of Europe.

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:
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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
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:
William Boyd Dawkins
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 July 1869
Source of text:
The Huntington Library (CB 847)
Summary:

Reports on prehistoric finds from caves at Rhagatt.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Boyd Dawkins
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Oct 1869
Source of text:
DAR 162: 124
Summary:

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.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Boyd Dawkins
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Jan [1870]
Source of text:
DAR 162: 122
Summary:

Discovery of skull of "River-bed" race of man near Corwen.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Boyd Dawkins
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Feb 1871
Source of text:
DAR 162: 125
Summary:

The box of bones sent by CD has led to a series of explorations. Reports on Yorkshire cave-hunting.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Boyd Dawkins
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Feb 1871
Source of text:
DAR 162: 126
Summary:

Thanks for the present of CD’s long-expected book [Descent].

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:
William Boyd Dawkins
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Aug 1871
Source of text:
DAR 162: 127
Summary:

Describes the successful excavation of caves containing interred remains of Neolithic man.

Contributor:
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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:
William Boyd Dawkins
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Apr 1874
Source of text:
DAR 162: 128
Summary:

Asks CD’s support for his application for the Chair of Geology at Oxford.

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