To Hugh Falconer [December? 1844]
Summary
Returns notes on mule yaks [see Natural selection, p. 438]
and sends queries on silkworms.
A bed is ready any time HF will come.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Hugh Falconer |
Date: | [Dec? 1844] |
Classmark: | DAR 144: 17 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1691 |
To Hugh Falconer 8 March [1845?]
Summary
Has written down what he gathered from HF on Tibetan dogs. Would welcome a few more details at any time, as he knows of nothing parallel to it.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Hugh Falconer |
Date: | 8 Mar [1845?] |
Classmark: | Raab Collection (dealer) (2 October 2013) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1839 |
To Hugh Falconer 23 November 1857
Summary
Can HF ask Col. E. Dickie [probably Col. Edward John Dickey] enclosed questions about Indian horses? [Questions relate to striped markings on the Kutch breed of horses.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Hugh Falconer |
Date: | 23 Nov 1857 |
Classmark: | DAR 144: 20 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2175 |
To Hugh Falconer [1845?–7 or 1857–64]
Summary
Arranges a time for visiting HF.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Hugh Falconer |
Date: | 1845-7 or 1857-64 |
Classmark: | DAR 144: 21 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2305 |
To Hugh Falconer 11 November [1859]
Summary
Has told Murray to send Origin to HF. "Lord, how savage you will be, if you read it, and how you will long to crucify me alive."
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Hugh Falconer |
Date: | 11 Nov [1859] |
Classmark: | Life and Letters 2: 216–17 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2524 |
To Hugh Falconer 17 December [1859]
Summary
Suggests HF investigate hippopotamus tooth.
Has heard HF is very antagonistic to his views on species. Cannot believe a false theory would explain so many classes of facts.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Hugh Falconer |
Date: | 17 Dec [1859] |
Classmark: | DAR 144: 22 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2587 |
To Hugh Falconer 12 July [1860]
Summary
Eldest daughter [Henrietta] very ill.
CD enjoys Owen’s having had "a good setting down".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Hugh Falconer |
Date: | 12 July [1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 144 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2865 |
To Hugh Falconer 24 [June 1861]
Summary
Thanks HF for offer of valuable specimen, but CD has no aquarium. Suggests the Zoological Society would be the best place for it.
Will keep HF’s note among a very few precious letters.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Hugh Falconer |
Date: | 24 [June 1861] |
Classmark: | Bellmans (dealers) (5 December 2019, lot 632) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3196 |
To Hugh Falconer 16 April [1856]
Summary
Invites him to visit. JDH and one or two others coming.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Hugh Falconer |
Date: | 16 Apr [1856] |
Classmark: | DAR 144: 18 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3509 |
To Hugh Falconer [8 May 1862]
Summary
Will try to call tomorrow. What HF tells him about horses makes him eager to come.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Hugh Falconer |
Date: | [8 May 1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 144: 24 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3539 |
To Hugh Falconer 1 October [1862]
Summary
Extreme interest in MS of HF’s paper on the American fossil elephant [Nat. Hist. Rev. n.s. 3 (1863): 43–114].
Pleased HF does not believe in immutable species. Significance of proboscidean group verging towards extinction. Comments on natural selection preserving type despite variability. Natural selection solves problem of how every part of each creature has become adapted.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Hugh Falconer |
Date: | 1 Oct [1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 144: 25 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3746 |
To Hugh Falconer 4 October [1862]
Summary
Explains that he returned the MS - part of a paper on fossil and living species of elephant (Falconer 1863) - to Falconer’s house in Park Crescent the previous Thursday.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Hugh Falconer |
Date: | 4 Oct [1862] |
Classmark: | Maggs Brothers (dealers) (catalogue 1345, 2003) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3751F |
To Hugh Falconer [7 March 1857]
Summary
Thinking about HF’s paper on Plagiaulax [Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 13 (1857): 261–82]. Owen might answer that all Purbeck mammals are marsupials.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Hugh Falconer |
Date: | [7 Mar 1857] |
Classmark: | DAR 144: 26 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3791 |
To Hugh Falconer 14 November [1862]
Summary
Comments on HF’s paper on Plagiaulax from the Purbeck beds. Paper "dreadfully severe" on Owen.
"I am worse than ever in bearing any excitement."
Glad HF attacked Australian Mastodon. Never did believe in him.
Mentions Primula paper [Collected papers 2: 45–63].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Hugh Falconer |
Date: | 14 Nov [1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 144: 27 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3806 |
To Hugh Falconer 29 December [1862]
Summary
Has HF met with any cases of what gardeners call "sports" and what CD will call "bud-variations"?
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Hugh Falconer |
Date: | 29 Dec [1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 144: 28 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3883 |
To Hugh Falconer 5 [and 6] January [1863]
Summary
His admiration for HF’s paper on American fossil elephant.
Notes "temporary irruption of S. American forms into N. America".
Rejoices that HF has "smashed" case of Mastodon on Timor.
Shares HF’s anger at Owen.
He is eager to hear about fossil bird [Archaeopteryx].
Comments on criticisms of species theory by [Johann Andreas?] Wagner.
Describes research on fertilisation of Melastomataceae.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Hugh Falconer |
Date: | 5 and 6 Jan 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 144: 29 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3901 |
To Hugh Falconer 20 [January 1863]
Summary
If jaw belongs to Archaeopteryx, it will show great peculiarity. A German author has advanced the case as argument for Origin.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Hugh Falconer |
Date: | 20 [Jan 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 144: 30 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3928 |
To Hugh Falconer 22 April [1863]
Summary
Good of HF to tell him about Brazilian beast. So intermediate a form is "very glorious". Must assume it is very old.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Hugh Falconer |
Date: | 22 Apr [1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 144: 31 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4121 |
To Hugh Falconer [25–6 August 1863]
Summary
Thanks for information about Pliocene mammal. Interested in relating process of formation to duration of the species. Oswald Heer’s view that species suddenly formed surely false.
Bad summer with much sickness. Going to Malvern [for water-cure] for a month.
Muddled over phyllotaxy and made out nothing.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Hugh Falconer |
Date: | [25–6 Aug 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 144: 32 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4277 |
To Hugh Falconer 4 [September 1863]
Summary
Sends address.
Comments on BAAS meeting at Newcastle.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Hugh Falconer |
Date: | 4 [Sept 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 144: 33 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4293 |
letter | (48) |
Falconer, Hugh | (25) |
Darwin, C. R. | (23) |