To W. B. Dawkins 30 [August 1867]1
Down. | Bromley. | Kent. S.E.
30th
My dear Sir
Excuse me for troubling you with one line as a suggestion, viz to collect hereafter all the facts on the changes in the skulls or skeletons of animals long confined, but not generated in menageries, & publish a short separate paper on subject.—2 I am pretty well read up on such subjects, & I believe the fact to be as new as it is surprising.—
In Haste | My dear Sir | Yours very faithfully | C. Darwin
Footnotes
Summary
Suggests Dawkins publish a paper on new facts on changes in the skeletal structure of animals kept but not bred in captivity.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-5618F
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- William Boyd Dawkins
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Yale University Medical Historical Library, Harvey Cushing / John Hay Whitney Medical Library (with Rare Book QH9 D25 859)
- Physical description
- ALS
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 5618F,” accessed on 18 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-5618F.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 18 (Supplement)
