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 …
To ? 19 March [1860–1?]
Summary
Recommends papers on Styrian Cave insects and American cave animals.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 19 Mar [1860–1] |
| Classmark: | King’s College London Archives (TH/PP MISC) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13770G |
Matches: 10 hits
- … Recommends papers on Styrian Cave insects …
- … and American cave animals. …
- … Benjamin Silliman Jr wrote on the Mammoth Cave of Kentucky ( L. Agassiz 1851 and Silliman …
- … translated from Schiödte on the Styrian Cave insect in the Transactions of the Entomolog. …
- … 134. & Part V p 145. On the American Cave animals you will find two papers by Agassiz & …
- … Styria’ to ‘Carniola’ in his discussion of blind cave animals (see n. 2, below). …
- … Matthias Christian Schiödte had written on cave insects in Carniola, which bordered on …
- … N. Wallich trans. 1851 . CD mentioned the cave animals of Styria in Origin , p. 137, and …
- … Observations on the blind fish of the Mammoth Cave. American Journal of Science and Arts …
- … Silliman, Benjamin, Jr. 1851. On the Mammoth Cave of Kentucky. American Journal of Science …
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 …
To W. B. Dawkins 12 April [1871]
Summary
Sends contribution of £5 to Settle Cave Exploration Fund.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Boyd Dawkins |
| Date: | 12 Apr [1871] |
| Classmark: | Wellcome Collection (MS.7781/1–32 item 22) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6695 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … Sends contribution of £5 to Settle Cave Exploration Fund. …
- … My dear Sir I see by the Report of the Settle Cave Exploration that funds are wanted, so I …
- … Dawkins was investigating the Craven Caves, which are near Settle, North Yorkshire (see …
- … Dawkins read his ‘Report on the results obtained by the Settle Cave Exploration Committee …
- … out of Victoria Cave in 1870’ at a meeting of the Royal Anthropological Institute on 3 …
- … the donation of £5 to ‘Boyd Dawkins caves’ in his Classed account books (Down House MS). …
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 …
To W. B. Dawkins 18 October [1874]
Summary
Thanks WBD for his book, Cave hunting (1874).
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Boyd Dawkins |
| Date: | 18 Oct [1874] |
| Classmark: | Buxton Museum and Art Gallery |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9682 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … Thanks WBD for his book, Cave hunting (1874). …
- … in having sent me your magnificent work on Cave-Hunting. I was yesterday reading with much …
- … Dawkins 1874a (see n. 2, below). CD refers to Dawkins’s book Cave hunting: researches on …
- … the evidences of caves respecting the early inhabitants of Europe ( Dawkins 1874a ). There …
Dawkins, William Boyd. 1874a. Cave hunting: researches on the evidences of caves respecting the early inhabitants of Europe. London: Macmillan and Co.
To Benjamin Silliman Jr 4 December [1860]
Summary
Thanks for information on cave rat.
CD is obliged for news of J. D. Dana’s recovery.
Will use BS’s information about cave rat in revised [3d] edition of Origin.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Benjamin Silliman, Jr |
| Date: | 4 Dec [1860] |
| Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3007 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … Thanks for information on cave rat. CD is obliged for news of J. D. …
- … s recovery. Will use BS’s information about cave rat in revised [3d] edition of Origin . …
- … quote a few words from your letter on the Cave-Rat. — With sincere thanks & respect, pray …
- … Silliman, Benjamin, Jr. 1851. On the Mammoth Cave of Kentucky. American Journal of Science …
- … with some additional information on the Cave-Rat & for your printed letter, which I well …
- … me much, & the whole subject of these cave blind animals seems to me eminently curious. — …
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 …
To W. B. Dawkins 14 July [1869]
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.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Boyd Dawkins |
| Date: | 14 July [1869] |
| Classmark: | Skinner, Inc. (dealers) (15 November 2009) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6857F |
Matches: 6 hits
- … Knows Dawkins interested in cave animals; has just heard from a Lloyd of Rhaggatt that a …
- … resemble in appearance those from the Cefn cave. The post is going immediately so that I …
- … remains how much you are interested about cave animals. I have just heard from one of the …
- … collection of fossil remains found in the cave near Corwen in the hills south of the town …
- … Correspondence vol. 17, Appendix II). Cefn cave is in the parish of Cefn Meiriadog, …
- … Wales. In August 1831, CD had visited the cave while on a geological tour with Adam …
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 , …
Dawkins, William Boyd. 1871c. Report on the results obtained by the Settle Cave Exploration Committee out of Victoria Cave in 1870. [Read 3 April 1871.] Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland 1 (1872): 60–70.
Leonard, A. G. K. 1984. Stories of Southampton streets. Southampton: Paul Cave.
Matches: 1 hit
- … G. K. 1984. Stories of Southampton streets. Southampton: Paul Cave. WBG 9474.c.2076 16,24 …
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 …
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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 …
