From Hugh Falconer 2 December 1864
Summary
The [Royal Society] President’s address is in the Reader [4 (1864): 708–9], but one or two sentences have been omitted.
| Author: | Hugh Falconer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 2 Dec 1864 |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 22 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4693 |
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 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 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 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … C. Lyell 1863a ) was published on 9 February 1863 ( Athenæum , 7 February 1863, p. 176). …
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 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … back so long. I met your brother at the Athenæum, a few days ago—and learnt from him, that …
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 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … of man ( C. Lyell 1863a ) in the Athenæum , 4 April 1863, pp. 459–60 (see letter to J. …
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 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Falconer refers to his letter in the Athenæum , 4 April 1863, pp. 459–60, which was …
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