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 John Obadiah Westwood 23 November 1856
Summary
The Kentucky cave insects (Adelops) are evidently identical to European species of the same genus, some of which are cave insects, others found in damp, dark places.
| Author: | John Obadiah Westwood |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 23 Nov 1856 |
| Classmark: | DAR 205.3: 297 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1998 |
Matches: 15 hits
- … The Kentucky cave insects ( Adelops ) are evidently identical to European species …
- … of the same genus, some of which are cave insects, others found in damp, dark places. …
- … Laibacher Zeitung” | No r 146. 4 Aug 1852. 2.3 not cave … places] double scored pencil …
- … Top of first page : ‘Cave Insects’ pencil ; ‘19’ brown crayon …
- … information on the fauna of the Kentucky caves, as described in Agassiz 1851 and Silliman …
- … Silliman, Benjamin, Jr. 1851. On the Mammoth Cave of Kentucky. American Journal of Science …
- … of the insects found by him in the Kentucky Cave are not sufficiently precise to enable us …
- … of the same Genus ten of which have been already described as cave insects & several …
- … others not cave insects but found in damp dark places— We have one if not two of this …
- … Anophthalmus has been found out of the Caves or whether there is any other American …
- … A considerable N o . of new additional cave insects have since been published in the …
- … As there have only been three or 4 American Cave insects descri d it follows that, as …
- … at present known, many of the European cave genera have no American representatives All we …
- … Wallich 1851 ). The paper is cited in CD’s discussion of cave animals in Origin , p. 138. …
- … is in CD’s hand and comprises a list of cave insects taken from a paper by Ferdinand …
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 Benjamin Silliman Jr 27 October 1860
Summary
On the suggestion of Jeffries Wyman, he writes about the rats that he captured in Mammoth Cave in 1850. They were indeed blind. Reginald Mantell studied them and learned that with long exposure to graduated light, they became somewhat sensitised. Sends copy of an abstract which he wrote as a letter to A. H. Guyot ["On the Mammoth Cave of Kentucky", Am. Journal of Sci. and Arts 2d ser. 11 (1851)]. [See 3007.]
| Author: | Benjamin Silliman, Jr |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 27 Oct 1860 |
| Classmark: | Darwin Pamphlet Collection–CUL (bound with Silliman 1851) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2966B |
Matches: 7 hits
- … Silliman Jun Chas Darwin Esq 1.4 a place … Cave—] double scored brown crayon 3.3 month] …
- … about the rats that he captured in Mammoth Cave in 1850. They were indeed blind. Reginald …
- … a letter to A. H. Guyot ["On the Mammoth Cave of Kentucky", Am. Journal of Sci. and Arts …
- … Silliman, Benjamin, Jr. 1851. On the Mammoth Cave of Kentucky. American Journal of Science …
- … to learn something more of the Rats found in Mammoth Cave— I kept a pair of these rats for …
- … weeks in Louisville after my visit to the Cave in 1850— We captured them in a trap at a …
- … than half a mile from the entrance to the Cave— The surface of dry dust on the ledges of …
From Jeffries Wyman [c. 15] September 1860
Summary
Cases of monstrosities becoming transmissible.
Comments on passages in Origin on the blindness of the tucu-tucu (Ctenomys) and Mammoth Cave rats.
| Author: | Jeffries Wyman |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [c. 15] Sept 1860 |
| Classmark: | DAR 47: 165–6 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2901 |
Matches: 8 hits
- … passages in Origin on the blindness of the tucu-tucu ( Ctenomys ) and Mammoth Cave rats. …
- … page : ‘Nãta cattle. | Black Hog & Roots | Cave Rat’ ink, del pencil ; ‘Keep for cause of …
- … Silliman, Benjamin, Jr. 1851. On the Mammoth Cave of Kentucky. American Journal of Science …
- … In one of the blind animals, namely, the cave-rat, the eyes are of immense size; and …
- … had recognised the difference between the cave-rat and the Norway rat ( Silliman 1851 , …
- … to include Wyman’s comment that the cave-rats belonged to the genus Neotoma ( Origin 3d …
- … s . you refer to the “rat” from Mammoth cave as illustrating the influence of the absence …
- … s study of the blind animals of the Mammoth Cave in Kentucky ( Silliman 1851 ) in Origin , …
From Hugh Falconer 23 June 1861
Summary
Offers CD a live Proteus anguinus from Adelsberg cave. In his hands it will have a fair chance of developing into "some type of Columbidae (say a pouter or tumbler)".
The Origin is universally praised in Italy and Germany, even by those who disagree with it.
| Author: | Hugh Falconer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 23 June 1861 |
| Classmark: | DAR 99: 3–4 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3194 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … CD a live Proteus anguinus from Adelsberg cave. In his hands it will have a fair chance of …
- … 1861 My Dear Darwin I have been to Adelsberg Cave —and brought back with me a live Proteus …
- … This famous stalactite cave, the largest in Europe, is located near the town now known as …
- … Proteus anguinus (the olm) was first discovered in the Adelsberg cave ( EB ). CD had …
- … mentioned Proteus in Origin as one of several cave animals anomalous in not …
- … being related to non-cave-dwelling forms of the same continent and described such animals …
From W. B. Dawkins 14 March 1875
Summary
Is glad CD is pleased with his book [Cave hunting (1874)].
Relationship between language and race. The Basques.
| Author: | William Boyd Dawkins |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 14 Mar 1875 |
| Classmark: | DAR 162: 130 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9887 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … Is glad CD is pleased with his book [ Cave hunting (1874)]. Relationship between language …
- … by Oscar Fraas. (German translation of Cave hunting . ) Leipzig and Heidelberg: C. F. …
- … but he had evidently written to comment on Dawkins’s book Cave hunting: researches on …
- … the evidences of caves respecting the early inhabitants of Europe ( Dawkins 1874a ). …
- … 1: 188). The German translation of Cave hunting was published in 1876 ( Dawkins 1876 ). …
From J. D. Dana 8 September 1856
Summary
Responds to CD’s query about the blind fauna of Mammoth Cave.
Gives information from L. Agassiz. Distribution of Crustacea, especially along southern coastlines.
| Author: | James Dwight Dana |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 8 Sept 1856 |
| Classmark: | DAR 205.3: 269 (Letters), DAR 162: 38 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1951 |
Matches: 8 hits
- … to CD’s query about the blind fauna of Mammoth Cave. Gives information from L. Agassiz. …
- … 5. The information on fish from the Mammoth Cave, Kentucky, had already been given in J. …
- … answer your queries respecting the Mammoth Cave Animals, I concluded to defer my answer …
- … and Scientifically. — First as to the Mammoth Cave. — Professor Agassiz told me that the …
- … D. Dana Ch. Darwin Esq. 0.1 New Haven ... Cave. — 2.1] crossed pencil 2.2 Cyprinodonts] …
- … genus Triura , has not been found any where except at the Mammoth Cave. You may have …
- … seen some notice of the species of the Cave in the Amer. Jour. Sci. , vol. xi, p. 127 ( …
- … and Agassiz in his discussion of blind cave animals in Origin , pp. 137–9. John Lawrence …
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 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 Andrew Murray 3 May 1860
Summary
Responds to CD’s comments on his review of the Origin. Regrets lack of space often causes him to do injustice to CD and to himself. Agrees to alter some of his statements
and offers some evidence for his opinions on plant hybridising.
Sends references to papers mentioning cave insects. Paussi are not blind, as CD thinks, though some other insects that live in ants’ nests are. Each country over the world has its peculiar species of Paussi, though they all live in ants’ nests. "Physical condition I say – Natural Selection you say".
| Author: | Andrew Dickson (Andrew) Murray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 3 May 1860 |
| Classmark: | DAR 47: 153–153a |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2780 |
Matches: 8 hits
- … Sends references to papers mentioning cave insects. Paussi are not blind, as CD thinks, …
- … at which Charles Delarouzée exhibited cave insects from Bétharram in the Hautes-Pyrénées ( …
- … wish a reference to the papers where the caves I mention are treated of. — There is not …
- … descriptions of new insects found in these caves. — Betharram Low Pyrenees— Annales de …
- … p. 26 Monte Viso D o . p. 27 The Carniolan Cave Anophthalmi are described by Sturm —but …
- … has given anything like an acco t . of the Caves (except Muller perhaps) Laibach (Müller) …
- … you say— It is a case very like that of the Cave insects— I shall send you a copy of the …
- … his head—and I have stated as regards the cave animals that altho your illustration is …
From Henry Johnson 22 September [1879]
Summary
Requests autograph for a friend.
Has retired to Ludlow because of angina pectoris.
He and his daughter, Mary, were present in the cave near Tenby when George Rolleston found so many antediluvial bones.
| Author: | Henry Johnson |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 22 Sept [1879] |
| Classmark: | DAR 168: 69 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12236 |
From E. A. Darwin 9 April [1864]
Summary
Lyell thinks an expedition should be sent to the caves in Borneo, supported by the sale of surplus specimens; thinks "our progenitors" may well be there.
| Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 9 Apr [1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 105: B25–6 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4458 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … Lyell thinks an expedition should be sent to the caves in Borneo, supported by the sale of …
- … the Rajah Brooks to consult about examing the caves in Borneo. He did not express that he …
- … with Lyell the importance of exploring a cave in north-western Borneo said to contain …
- … 1905 , 1: 433–5. Wallace discussed the caves and requested funds for the exploration in a …
- … Brooke , later offered to examine some caves at the expense of the Sarawak government; …
From George Robert Waterhouse [February 1860]
Summary
It is not true that all the fossil cave bears are of the same species.
| Author: | George Robert Waterhouse |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [Feb 1860] |
| Classmark: | DAR 47: 152 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2674 |
From William Boyd Dawkins 29 January [1870]
Summary
Discovery of skull of "River-bed" race of man near Corwen.
| Author: | William Boyd Dawkins |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 29 Jan [1870] |
| Classmark: | DAR 162: 122 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6582 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … write you a line about the skeletons in the Cave at Perth y chwari near Corwen, because I …
- … Society (Dawkins and Busk 1870). The Craven caves are near Settle, North Yorkshire. The …
- … to the formation of a committee to undertake the exploration of the caves, beginning with …
- … the Victoria Cave; Dawkins made a preliminary report in Nature , 21 April 1870, pp. 628– …
- … in Denbigh, and after that the Craven caves are in hand as you will see by the enclosed. …
From J. D. Hooker 26[–8] October 1864
Summary
Comments at length on Ramsay’s glacial paper ["On the erosion of valleys and lakes", Philos. Mag. 4th ser. 28 (1864): 293–311]. Prefers it to Tyndall, but unconvinced about sea action and unwilling to grant that ice power sculptures the totality of landscape.
Unwilling to support Wallace for Royal Medal.
Herbert Spencer’s noisy vacuity.
Garden varieties that are constant and infertile with parent deserve to be called species.
Scott ineligible to be Linnean Society associate because he is not in England.
George Busk’s incoherent talk on Gibraltar cave fossils.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 26[–8] Oct 1864 |
| Classmark: | DAR 101: 247–53 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4645 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … because he is not in England. George Busk’s incoherent talk on Gibraltar cave fossils. …
- … us an incoherent account of the Gibraltar caves—26 species at least in a space half as big …
- … are no doubt planed off by ice— how the cave is formed I cannot guess, but I think not by …
- … Hebrides off the western coast of Scotland. It has numerous caves, the most famous of …
- … which is Fingal’s cave ( Columbia gazetteer of the world ). See Correspondence vol. 11, …
- … and 3). Busk’s account of the Genista Cave, Windmill Hill, Gibraltar, at the Philosophical …
- … a full report on the fossil contents of the cave in the March 1865 issue of the Quarterly …
From William Charles Linnaeus Martin [1859–61]
Summary
MS of a paper called "Comments on Mr Darwin’s grand theory", which generally supports CD but proposes that present flightless birds are primitive. Paper supplemented by a diagram showing the phylogeny of birds.
| Author: | William Charles Linnaeus Martin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [1859–61] |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 56/1–15 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13827 |
Matches: 10 hits
- … European Proteus anguinus (the olm), a blind cave salamander that retains gills and tail …
- … Karst Mountains) there are a great number of caves and subterranean streams ( EB ). It is …
- … now in Slovenia. CD mentioned the caves of Carniola in Origin 3d ed. , …
- … p. 154, rather than the caves of Styria mentioned in the first edition (see, for example, …
- … Origin , p. 137). CD also mentioned the caves in Carniola in an addition to Origin 3d …
- … information and references on the Carniola caves (see Correspondence vol. 8, letter from …
- … The eyes of moles and other burrowing or cave-dwelling creatures are discussed in Origin , …
- … added to his discussion of vision in the cave-rat ( Neotoma ) in Origin 3d ed, pp. 154–5; …
- … hereafter may become of them. — Were the caves of Carniola destroyed by any agency—& the …
- … them efficient delvers. — In the case of the Cave rat we verily believe that if a nest of …
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 Hugh Falconer 25 October and 12 November [1859]
Summary
The antlers of 800 deer of the glacial period have been found in a cave. They show great variety of form, but gradation from one to the other can be traced when all are laid out. Suggests CD study changes that have taken place in the species since glacial period.
Has ordered the wicked book [Origin] CD has been so long a-hatching.
| Author: | Hugh Falconer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 25 Oct and 12 Nov 1859 |
| Classmark: | DAR 47: 215–17 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2511 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … deer of the glacial period have been found in a cave. They show great variety of form, but …
- … Falconer was investigating the fossiliferous caves of the Gower Peninsula in South Wales. …
- … expressed his belief that the worked flints discovered in caves in breccia and gravel …
- … deposits in France and in caves in England were indeed human tools contemporary with …
- … some interest for you. In a newly explored cave in South Wales, we have come upon no fewer …
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| Darwin, C. R. | (93) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (13) |
| Dawkins, W. B. | (9) |
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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 …
