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 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 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 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 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 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 November 186[4]
Summary
Council of the Royal Society have awarded CD the Copley Medal.
| Author: | Hugh Falconer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 3 Nov 186[4] |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 19 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4652 |
From Hugh Falconer to William Sharpey 25 October 1864
Summary
Describes CD’s qualifications for Copley Medal.
| Author: | Hugh Falconer |
| Addressee: | William Sharpey |
| Date: | 25 Oct 1864 |
| Classmark: | DAR 144: 475 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4644 |
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 |
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Darwin in Conversation exhibition
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Meet Charles Darwin as you have never met him before. Come to our exhibition at Cambridge University Library, running from 9 July to 3 December 2022, and discover a fascinating series of interwoven conversations with Darwin's many hundreds of…
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