From W. B. Dawkins 31 July 1869
Summary
Reports on prehistoric finds from caves at Rhagatt.
| Author: | William Boyd Dawkins |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 31 July 1869 |
| Classmark: | The Huntington Library (CB 847) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6847F |
Matches: 14 hits
- … Reports on prehistoric finds from caves at Rhagatt. …
- … William Boyd. 1869. The Denbighshire caves. Transactions of the Manchester Geological …
- … yesterday, after having had a most pleasant day at Cave-digging. M rs Lloyd entertained me …
- … on Friday organised a party to explore the cave and placed several workmen at my disposal. …
- … After the discovery of cave bones on the Rhagatt estate near Corwen in Wales, CD, who was …
- … vol. 17). Dawkins refers to his paper ‘ The Denbighshire caves’ ( Dawkins 1869 ). …
- … For more on Lloyd’s exploration of the cave, see Correspondence vol. 17, letter from W. …
- … In 1860, Edouard Lartet had discovered mammoth and cave-bear bones along with implements …
- … of stone and bone in a cave near Aurignac in southern France. …
- … in dating the human occupancy of the cave, but concluded it probably pre-dated the …
- … hole, which may perhaps be the entrance into a cave. We dug 6 feet into it, and M rs Lloyd …
- … example set by M. Lartet in the Aurignac cave, prevents my hazarding a guess at the age …
- … disappeared. At a little distance and much lower down in the rock there is a cave, full …
- … of red cave-earth, a kind of modern red silt, that I have found invariably to be barren of …
From W. B. Dawkins 19 October 1869
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.
| Author: | William Boyd Dawkins |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 19 Oct 1869 |
| Classmark: | DAR 162: 124 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6944 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … Reports on his findings in Denbighshire caves ["The …
- … Denbighshire caves", Trans. Manchester Geol. Soc. 9 (1869–70): 31–7]. Sends his paper ["On …
- … written to you concerning the Denbigh-shire caves—to which you gave me an introduction. …
- … me down to dig & supplied me with a virgin cave containing R. Leptorhinus (Owen) & the …
- … to make some addition to our knowledge of Cave-short heads in Britain. I thought that you …
- … Perthichwareu and other Denbighshire caves at the British Association for the Advancement …
From W. B. Dawkins 17 July 1869
Summary
On the genealogy of the horse.
| Author: | William Boyd Dawkins |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 17 July 1869 |
| Classmark: | DAR 162: 123 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6834 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … Ruthin district is very interesting, and ought to furnish large numbers of cave-beasts. …
- … The Cefn cave contained the rare R. leptorhinus . I am delighted to see how fast …
- … bones that had been collected from a cave near Corwen in the hills south of the town of …
- … more on CD’s acquisition of the bones, see Lucas 2007 , pp. 325–6). Cefn cave is one of a …
- … group of Palaeolithic and later caves in the lower Elwy valley near Denbigh. Dawkins had …
From A. B. Meyer 24 November 1869
Summary
Wants to arrange a joint photograph of CD and Wallace for a publication on their lives and works.
| Author: | Adolf Bernhard Meyer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 24 Nov 1869 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 167 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7008 |
From J. D. Hooker [25 January 1869]
Summary
Does not fact that characters important in systematics are often of no use, corroborate CD’s view that such characters, if not detrimental, may persist ad infinitum?
Social news.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [25 Jan 1869] |
| Classmark: | DAR 103: 8–9 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6608 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … but on 23 February 1869 a paper ‘The cave cannibals of South Africa’ by Mr Layland was …
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| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Meyer, A. B. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (5) |
| Dawkins, W. B. | (3) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Meyer, A. B. | (1) |
The Lyell–Lubbock dispute
Summary
In May 1865 a dispute arose between John Lubbock and Charles Lyell when Lubbock, in his book Prehistoric times, accused Lyell of plagiarism. The dispute caused great dismay among many of their mutual scientific friends, some of whom took immediate action…
Matches: 4 hits
- … History Review , Lubbock produced a final article on ‘Cave-men’ (Lubbock 1864) that summarised …
- … and Joseph Prestwich properly for their work in the Brixham cave explorations of 1858 and 1859. 5 …
- … Review n.s. 3: 211–19. Lubbock, John. 1864. Cave-men. Natural History Review n.s. 4: …
- … Press. Wilson, Leonard Gilchrist. 1996a. Brixham Cave and Sir Charles Lyell’s … the …
Hermann Müller
Summary
Hermann (Heinrich Ludwig Hermann) Müller, was born in Mühlberg near Erfurt in 1829. He was the younger brother of Fritz Müller (1822–97). Following the completion of his secondary education at Erfurt in 1848, he studied natural sciences at Halle and Berlin…
Matches: 1 hits
- … Carniolan Alps (now in Slovenia), he discovered an eyeless cave beetle; it was the subject of his …
Darwin in letters, 1863: Quarrels at home, honours abroad
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At the start of 1863, Charles Darwin was actively working on the manuscript of The variation of animals and plants under domestication, anticipating with excitement the construction of a hothouse to accommodate his increasingly varied botanical experiments…
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- … with bones from animals like the woolly mammoth and cave bear ( see letter from Jacques Boucher de …
Darwin in letters, 1860: Answering critics
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On 7 January 1860, John Murray published the second edition of Darwin’s Origin of species, printing off another 3000 copies to satisfy the demands of an audience that surprised both the publisher and the author. It wasn't long, however, before ‘the…
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- … the explanation of the origin and distribution of blind cave animals. Darwin attempted to answer …
Science: A Man’s World?
Summary
Discussion Questions|Letters Darwin's correspondence show that many nineteenth-century women participated in the world of science, be it as experimenters, observers, editors, critics, producers, or consumers. Despite this, much of the…
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- … woman “except a she bear or so” to have entered the cave “since the flood”. Letter 13414 …
Women’s scientific participation
Summary
Observers | Fieldwork | Experimentation | Editors and critics | Assistants Darwin’s correspondence helps bring to light a community of women who participated, often actively and routinely, in the nineteenth-century scientific community. Here is a…
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- … woman “except a she bear or so” to have entered the cave “since the flood”. Letter …
Language: key letters
Summary
How and why language evolved bears on larger questions about the evolution of the human species, and the relationship between man and animals. Darwin presented his views on the development of human speech from animal sounds in The Descent of Man (1871),…
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- … Manchester, and the author of a book on early humans (Cave Dwellers) remarks on recent discussions …
Darwin in letters, 1864: Failing health
Summary
On receiving a photograph from Charles Darwin, the American botanist Asa Gray wrote on 11 July 1864: ‘the venerable beard gives the look of your having suffered, and … of having grown older’. Because of poor health, Because of poor health, Darwin…
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- … urged financial support for the exploration of a Borneo cave in the hope that hominid fossils would …
