From Hugh Falconer [1842–3]
Summary
Has seen lately a true ruminant with the two central metacarpals distinct. It was the foot of an Anoplotherium in a recent ruminant.
Author: | Hugh Falconer |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [1842–3] |
Classmark: | DAR 205.5: 215 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13805 |
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 |
From Hugh Falconer 9 July [1860]
Summary
Hyaena remains show how recently Sicily was joined to Africa.
Reports on the Oxford meeting of BAAS.
Author: | Hugh Falconer |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 9 July [1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 164.1: 5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2863 |
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 |
From Hugh Falconer 7 May [1862]
Summary
Wanted to talk with CD about the astonishing new Pliocene fossil discoveries in North America reported by Leidy. One horse fossil’s dentition, if it could be believed, would be of great interest to CD’s views.
Author: | Hugh Falconer |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 May [1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 205.9: 380 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3538 |
From Hugh Falconer 24–7 September [1862]
Summary
Encloses MS ["On the American fossil elephant", Nat. Hist. Rev. (1863): 43–114]. Shows persistence of specific characters through glacial period.
Eocene monkeys mistakenly described as pigs.
Author: | Hugh Falconer |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 24–7 Sept [1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 164: 6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3737 |
From Hugh Falconer 3 October 1862
Author: | Hugh Falconer |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 Oct 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 164: 7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3750 |
From Hugh Falconer 4 October 1862
Summary
Although their views differ, HF is glad they can discuss those differences without offending.
Author: | Hugh Falconer |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 4 Oct 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 164: 8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3751 |
From Hugh Falconer 12 November [1862]
Summary
Sends paper on affinities of Plagiaulax ["On Plagiaulax from the Purbeck beds", Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 18 (1862): 348–69].
Author: | Hugh Falconer |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 Nov [1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 164: 9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3804 |
From Hugh Falconer 3 January [1863]
Summary
Describes an astounding "sort of mis-begotten-bird-creature", the Archaeopteryx, a grand Darwinian case.
His elephant paper is out in Natural History Review [(1863): 43–114].
Author: | Hugh Falconer |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 Jan [1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 164: 10 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3899 |
From Hugh Falconer 8 January [1863]
Author: | Hugh Falconer |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 Jan [1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 164: 11 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3908 |
From Hugh Falconer 9 January 1863
Author: | Hugh Falconer |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 9 Jan 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 164: 12 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3909 |
From Hugh Falconer 18 January [1863]
Summary
Jaw with teeth found associated with Archaeopteryx fossil. Waterhouse pronounces it a fish’s jaw.
Author: | Hugh Falconer |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 18 Jan [1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 164: 13 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3926 |
From Hugh Falconer 20 April [1863]
Summary
Has been in France, conveys good wishes from Quatrefages.
Describes the fossil of an unusual mammal head from Brazil.
Author: | Hugh Falconer |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20 Apr [1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 164: 14 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4113 |
From Hugh Falconer 24 April [1863]
Author: | Hugh Falconer |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 24 Apr [1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 164: 15 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4125 |
From Hugh Falconer 24 August [1863]
Summary
Sends information about Pliocene fauna of the "Forest Bed" of the Norfolk coast.
A genus described as extinct by Owen is found by E. A. I. H. Lartet to exist in Russia.
Edouard Suess attributes to Oswald Heer and HF the generalisation "That the time during which a new species is formed, is (as a rule) very short in comparison with the time during which it persistently presents the same peculiar specific characters". [Edouard Suess, "Über die Verschiedenheit und die Aufeinanderfolge der tertiären Landfaunen in der Niederung von Wien", Sitzungsberichte der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien (Math-naturw. Klasse) 47 (1863): 306–31.] [See 4277.]
Author: | Hugh Falconer |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 24 Aug [1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 164: 16 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4273A |
From Hugh Falconer 29 August 1863
Summary
HF will send E. Suess’s paper [Edouard Suess, "Über die Verschiedenheit und die Aufeinanderfolge der tertiären Landfaunen in der Niederung von Wien", Sitzungsberichte der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien (Math–nat. Klasse) 47 (1863): 306–31] which deals directly with natural selection.
Author: | Hugh Falconer |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 29 Aug 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 164: 17 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4284 |
From Hugh Falconer 10 September 1863
Author: | Hugh Falconer |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 Sept 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 164: 18 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4298 |
From Hugh Falconer 31 December [1863]
Author: | Hugh Falconer |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 31 Dec [1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 164: 25 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4362 |
From Hugh Falconer 3 November 186[4]
Author: | Hugh Falconer |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 Nov 186[4] |
Classmark: | DAR 164: 19 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4652 |