Author:William Boyd Dawkins

William Boyd Dawkins
(1838–1929)

William Boyd Dawkins

Works

• The British pleistocene Mammalia (1866)
• Cave-hunting (1874)
• Early Man in Britain and His Place in the Tertiary Period (1880)
• British bears and wolves
• Canada and the great North-West (1885)
• The arrival of man in Britain in the pleistocene age: the Huxley memorial lecture (1910)

Articles in The Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London

• On a Hyæna-den at Wookey-Hole, near Wells in the Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London, volume 18, pages 115–126, (1862)
• On a Hyæna-den at Wookey Hole, near Wells. No. II in the Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London, volume 19, pages 260–274, (1863)
• On the Rhætic Beds and White Lias of Western and Central Somerset in the Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London, volume 20, pages 396–412, (1864)
• On the Mammalian Remains found by E. Wood, Esq., near Richmond, Yorkshire in the Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London, volume 21, pages 493–495, (1865)
• On the Fossil British Oxen. Part I. Bos Urus, Cæsar in the Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London, volume 22, pages 391–401, (1866)
• On the Age of the Lower Brick-earths of the Thames Valley in the Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London, volume 23, pages 91–109, (1867)
• On the Dentition of Rhinoceros leptorhinus, Owen in the Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London, volume 23, pages 213–227, (1867)
• On the Dentition of Rhinoceros Etruscus, Falc. in the Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London, volume 24, pages 207–218, (1868)
• On a New Species of Fossil Deer from Clacton in the Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London, volume 24, pages 511–516, (1868)
• On a New Species of Deer from the Norwich Crag in the Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London, volume 24, pages 516–519, (1868)
• On the Distribution of the British Postglacial Mammals in the Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London, volume 25, pages 192–217, (1869)
• "On the Discovery of the Glutton (Gulo luscus) in Britain" in Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London, 27 (1871), pp. 406–410
• "On the Cervidæ of the Forest-bed of Norfolk and Suffolk" in Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London, 28 (1872), pp. 405–410
• "The Classification of the Pleistocene strata of Britain and the Continent by means of the Mammalia" in Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London, 28 (1872), pp. 410–446
• "The Mammalia found at Windy Knoll" in Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London, 31 (1875), pp. 246–255
• "On the Mammalia and Traces of Man found in the Robin-Hood Cave" in Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London, 32 (1876), pp. 245–258
• "On the Mammal-fauna of the Caves of Creswell Crags" in Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London, 33 (1877), pp. 589–612
• "The Exploration of the Ossiferous Deposit at Windy Knoll, Castleton, Derbyshire" with Rooke Pennington in Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London, 33 (1877), pp. 724–729
• "Contributions to the History of the Deer of the European Miocene and Pliocene Strata" in Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London, 34 (1878), pp. 402–420
• "On the Range of the Mammoth in Space and Time" in Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London, 35 (1879), pp. 138–147
• "Further Discoveries in the Cresswell Caves" with John Magens Mello in Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London, 35 (1879), pp. 138–147
• The Classification of the Tertiary Period by means of the Mammalia in the Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London, volume 36, pages 379–405, (1880)
• On the alleged Existence of Ovibos moschatus in the Forestbed, and its Range in Space and Time in the Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London, volume 39, pages 575–581, (1883)
• On a Skull of Ovibos moschatus from the Sea-bottom in the Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London, volume 41, pages 242–244, (1885)
• On Ailurus anglicus, a new Carnivore from the Red Crag in the Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London, volume 44, pages 228–231, (1888)
• The Red Sandstone-Rocks of Peel (Isle of Man) in the Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London, volume 58, pages 633–646, (1902)
• The Carboniferous, Permian, and Triassic Rocks under the Glacial Drift in the North of the Isle of Man in the Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London, volume 58, pages 647–661, (1902)
• On the Discovery of an Ossiferous Cavern of Pliocene Age at Doveholes, Buxton (Derbyshire) in the Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London, volume 59, pages 105–132, (1903)

Contribution to EB1911

• "Cave," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)

Articles in Popular Science Monthly

• "The British Lion" in Popular Science Monthly, 22 (November 1882)

Contribution to The Zoologist

• "On the Northern Range of the Fallow Deer in Europe". The Zoologist. 3rd series, vol 1 (issue 3, March): 89–94. 1877. 
  This was a comment on: Jeitteles, J.H. (1877). translation: Ullman, P.D. & J.E. Harting. "On the Geographical Distribution of the Fallow Deer Past and Present". The Zoologist. 3rd series, vol 1 (issue 3, March): 81–89.  Both this text by Jeitteles and the comment by Dawkins, were previously published in Nature.

Works about Dawkins

• "Dawkins, William Boyd," in Men of the Time (eleventh edition), by Thompson Cooper, London: George Routledge and Sons (1884)
• "Dawkins, William Boyd," in Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886, by Joseph Foster, London: Parker and Co. (1888–1892) in 4 vols.
• "Dawkins, William Boyd," in The New International Encyclopædia, New York: Dodd, Mead and Co. (1905)
• "Dawkins, William Boyd," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)