From W. B. Dawkins 8 February 1871
Summary
The box of bones sent by CD has led to a series of explorations. Reports on Yorkshire cave-hunting.
| Author: | William Boyd Dawkins |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 8 Feb 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 162: 125 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7477 |
Matches: 10 hits
- … bones sent by CD has led to a series of explorations. Reports on Yorkshire cave-hunting. …
- … William Boyd. 1869. The Denbighshire caves. Transactions of the Manchester Geological …
- … Lloyd revealed a number of Neolithic human cave burial sites close by. (See Correspondence …
- … See Dawkins 1874 , pp. 81–125. Dawkins refers here to the Victoria Cave, the most notable …
- … of the Craven Caves. It had evidently been occupied by Romano-British families during …
- … Elmet (in Yorkshire). Dawkins discussed caves in the Dordogne region of France (Perigord) …
- … that eventually we shall have quite a cave-digging and tumulus hunting mania in the …
- … the little box of bones. In Yorkshire our cave-hunting has not been so successful: for we …
- … of debris—like that of the Dordogne,—in a cave some 1200 feet above the sea. I am looking …
- … that he was planning to go to the Craven Caves, near Settle, North Yorkshire, in his …
From W. B. Dawkins 27 August 1871
Summary
Describes the successful excavation of caves containing interred remains of Neolithic man.
| Author: | William Boyd Dawkins |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 27 Aug 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 162: 127 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7918 |
Matches: 9 hits
- … Describes the successful excavation of caves containing interred remains of Neolithic man. …
- … described Neolithic burials discovered in a cave at Cefn, Denbighshire, in 1869 in Dawkins …
- … Turner . Dawkins refers to excavations in caves in Settle, Yorkshire (see Dawkins 1871a …
- … two years ago. Last week we dug out two new caves near the old one which has furnished the …
- … Next week we recommence the Yorkshire Caves and I hope to send you a good account of our …
- … I was obliged to leave doubtful. All three caves are close to the ridge of limestone from …
- … cases are the only ones on record of a Neolithic interment in caves in Britain, while …
- … that in the cave at Cefn makes a 4 th. . …
- … in a collection of bones made from a cave near Oban, by Prof. Turner of Edinburgh. I fully …
From V. O. Kovalevsky 23 May [1871]
Summary
Will translate passages as CD requests [see 7735].
Bitter at Prussian militarism.
| Author: | Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский) |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 23 May [1871] |
| Classmark: | DAR 169: 62 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7766 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … August Rücker. Kurtén, Björn. 1976. The cave bear story: life and death of a vanished …
- … a translation of a passage in Körte 1829 . The cave that Kovalevsky visited was probably …
- … of Schelklingen, twelve miles west of Ulm. The cave was first excavated in 1870 (Rosendahl …
- … and Döppes 2006). Ursus spelaeus (the cave bear) lived in Europe during the Pleistocene …
- … to assist at the Explaration of a new cave near Ulm containing undoubtedly human remains …
From George Rolleston [after 22 February 1871]
Summary
Suggests alteration in Descent [1st ed. 7th thousand] in citing pagination of George Busk’s paper "The caves of Gibraltar" [Trans. Int. Congr. Prehist. Archaeol. 3 (1868): 106–67].
| Author: | George Rolleston |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [after 22 Feb 1871] |
| Classmark: | DAR 176: 210 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7521 |
From George Busk 10 March 1871
Summary
Clarification of the supra-condyloid foramen in humans and animals.
| Author: | George Busk |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 10 Mar 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 87: 21–7 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7563 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … Bibliography Busk, George. 1868. On the caves of Gibraltar in which human remains and …
- … Museum. In some instances, however, as in the caves in Algeria explored by Gen l Faidherbe …
- … s account. Bones of Ursus spelaeus , the cave bear, found in the caverns at Gaylenreuth …
- … referred to in my Account of the Gibraltar Caves and noticed by M. Broca in the quotation …
From George Busk 24 November 1871
Summary
Thanks for information on platycnemic tibiae found in America. Believes the condition is of two kinds as exemplified by Gibraltar and Cro-Magnon tibiae on one side and the Welsh form on the other. Would like to know which of the two forms the American bones are; their proportions suggest they are very like the Welsh tibiae.
| Author: | George Busk |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 24 Nov 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 385 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8084 |
From Asa Gray 3 August 1871
Summary
AG hopes to meet CD’s sons, who are visiting America.
| Author: | Asa Gray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 3 Aug 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 165: 176 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7894 |
From W. R. Greg 14 March [1871]
Summary
Comments on various points in Descent: proportion of sexes, moral sentiments in animals, etc. Encloses "packet of data" [missing].
| Author: | William Rathbone Greg |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 14 Mar [1871] |
| Classmark: | DAR 90: 127–30 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7581 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … peculiarity, as you say the very ancient, cave & drift skulls do,—and as my Muckross & …
From Henry Gillman 31 October 1871
Summary
Sends details of his discoveries of relics and bones of the "mound-builders", and Jeffries Wyman’s comments on them.
| Author: | Henry Gillman |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 31 Oct 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 165: 48 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8038 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … this respect resembling the bones from the Caves of France and of Gibraltar. A quantity of …
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| Busk, George | (2) |
| Dawkins, W. B. | (2) |
| Gillman, Henry | (1) |
| Gray, Asa | (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
Summary
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…
Matches: 1 hits
- … with bones from animals like the woolly mammoth and cave bear ( see letter from Jacques Boucher de …
Darwin in letters, 1860: Answering critics
Summary
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…
Matches: 1 hits
- … 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…
Matches: 1 hits
- … 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…
Matches: 1 hits
- … 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),…
Matches: 1 hits
- … 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…
Matches: 1 hits
- … urged financial support for the exploration of a Borneo cave in the hope that hominid fossils would …
