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To Hugh Falconer   11 November [1859]

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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

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To Hugh Falconer   17 December [1859]

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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

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From Hugh Falconer   25 October and 12 November [1859]

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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

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  • … From Hugh Falconer   25 October and 12 November [1859] …
  • … DAR 47: 215–17 Hugh Falconer London, Sackville St, 31 25 Oct 1859 12 Nov 1859 Charles …
  • … after CD’s letter to Hugh Falconer, 11 November [1859] , had arrived, which mentioned that …

To John Lubbock   9 February [1859]

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CD sees JL’s cases of same organs varying greatly in allied forms as a serious difficulty in regard to his own ideas.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:  9 Feb [1859]
Classmark:  DAR 263: 27 (EH 88206476)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2411

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  • … from John Lubbock, 8 February 1859 . The reference to Hugh Falconer was apparently in the …

To Hugh Falconer   [1845?–7 or 1857–64]

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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

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  • … vol.  7, letter from Hugh Falconer, 25 October and 12 November [1859] ). They met again in …
  • Hugh Falconer, 20 [January 1863] ). No further meeting are known to have taken place before Falconer’s death early in February 1865. CD was not in London in January 1865. CD complained of swimming of the head from mid-1848 to spring 1849, in 1854, February 1859, …

To Charles Lyell   12–13 March [1863]

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[On Antiquity of man] CD is "convinced that at times … you have … given up immutability". "A clear expression from you, if you could have given it, would have been potent with the public."

Objects to CL’s description of CD’s view "as a modification of Lamarck’s doctrine". Quotes Henrietta [Darwin]’s observations on this description.

Comments on CL’s controversy with Owen concerning the human brain.

The controversy between Falconer and CL.

The "wretched" review of CL [Antiquity of man, Athenæum 14 Feb 1863, pp. 219–21] and Huxley [Man’s place in nature].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:  12–13 Mar [1863]
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.290)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4038

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  • … to the location in 1858 and 1859 by Hugh Falconer and Joseph Prestwich . See Grayson  …

To Hugh Falconer   5 [and 6] January [1863]

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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

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  • … see letter from Hugh Falconer, 3 January [1863] and n.  7). In 1859, CD wrote to Charles …

To J. D. Hooker   22 [June 1859]

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CD making extensive corrections on proofs of Origin. Worries that style is too dry.

Doubts about Joseph Prestwich’s discovery [of flint tools].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  22 [June 1859]
Classmark:  DAR 115: 18
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2471

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  • … and Hugh Falconer were led by this report to visit Abbeville in 1858 and 1859 and …

To J. D. Hooker   17 March [1863]

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Lyell’s Antiquity of man lacks originality.

Statements in Lyell provoke CD to determine exact publication date of Origin and JDH’s introductory essay [to Flora Tasmaniae].

CD now believes in repeated periods of global cooling and migration.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  17 Mar [1863]
Classmark:  DAR 115: 187
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4048

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  • 1859 ( Correspondence vol.  7). See letter to Charles Lyell, 6 March [1863] and n.  35. The reference is to Hugh Falconer , …

To Asa Gray   3 July [1860]

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Origin has "stirred up the mud with a vengeance"; AG and three or four others have saved CD from annihilation and are responsible for the attention now given to the subject. Reports events at Oxford BAAS meeting.

New evidence supports AG’s view of a warm post-glacial period.

Discusses his recent orchid observations.

Poses AG a question on design in nature.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Asa Gray
Date:  3 July [1860]
Classmark:  Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (41)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2855

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  • Hugh Falconer, 9 July 1860 , and K.  M.  Lyell ed.  1881, 2: 334–5. See Correspondence vol.  7, letters to Asa Gray , 11 November [1859] …

To J. D. Dana   20 February [1863]

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Received JDD’s book [Manual of geology (1862)]

and pamphlet on man ["On the higher subdivisions in the classification of mammals", Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 35 (1863): 65–71].

Fully admits JDD’s objections are valid. But is convinced of the general truth of his own views (with much incidental error), because they embrace so many phenomena and explain them.

Discusses some mistakes Owen has made;

Falconer’s disagreement with Owen ["On the mammalian genus Plagiaulax", Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 18 (1862): 348–69].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  James Dwight Dana
Date:  20 Feb [1863]
Classmark:  Yale University Library: Manuscripts and Archives (Dana Family Papers (MS 164) Series 1, Box 2, folder 44)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4000

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  • Hugh Falconer … with a biographical sketch of the author. Compiled and edited by Charles Murchison. 2 vols. London: Robert Hardwicke. Origin : On the origin of species by means of natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1859. …

To Hugh Falconer   14 November [1862]

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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

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  • Hugh Falconer, 12 November [1862] . Falconer sent CD a copy of Falconer 1862  with his letter of 12 November [1862] ; it was published in the Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London . In R.  Owen 1859 ( …
  • Falconer, Hugh. 1862. On the disputed affinity of the mammalian genus Plagiaulax , from the Purbeck beds. [Read 4 June 1862. ] Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 18: 348–69. [Vols. 10,11] Origin : On the origin of species by means of natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1859. …

To Charles Lyell   28 August [1860]

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The adultery of Lady [Harriet Spencer] Grey and Captain Keppell.

A new species of elephant discovered by Hugh Falconer.

Comments on excellent review by Asa Gray [Atlantic Monthly 6 (1860): 229–39].

Still believes dogs descended from several wild stocks.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:  28 Aug [1860]
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.224)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2900

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  • 1859. Although a rumour circulated in London that the pair had been caught in the act of adultery, Grey had in fact only discovered notes indicating a romance. See Dalton 1974 . Hugh Falconer

To J. D. Hooker   3 February [1868]

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Comments on Wollaston’s troubles

and his book [Coleoptera Hesperidum (1867)].

Mohl’s claim to foreign membership in Royal Society very strong.

Has been in despair about Variation – not worth a fifth part of the labour it cost him.

Is reading F. A. W. Miquel’s Flora du Japon [Prolusio florae Japonicae (1866–7)]; wonders whether A. Murray could be correct in his view that an area of the sea prevented Asiatico-Japan flora colonising western N. America.

Comments on A. Murray’s book [Geographical distribution of mammals (1866)].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  3 Feb [1868]
Classmark:  DAR 94: 44–9
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-5835

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  • Hugh Falconer’s memoirs ( Falconer 1868 ). See letter from J.  D.  Hooker, 1 February 1868 . CD refers to J.  D.  Hooker 1867 , 1853, 1859, …

To James Dwight Dana   7 January [1863]

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Responds to JDD’s letter [3845].

Discusses his own poor health.

"Man is our great subject at present."

Lyell’s book [Antiquity of man (1863)] sold 4000 copies on day of sale.

"The fossil bird [Archaeopteryx] … is a grand case for me." Wishes a skeleton could be found in the "so-called red sandstone foot-step beds".

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  James Dwight Dana
Date:  7 Jan [1863]
Classmark:  Yale University Library: Manuscripts and Archives (Dana Family Papers (MS 164) Series 1, Box 2, folder 44)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3905

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  • Hugh Falconer, 3 January [ 1863] and nn.  7–14). The Triassic sandstones of the Connecticut River Valley were renowned for the large bird-like footprints imprinted in the rock ( Hitchcock 1836 ). See letter from J.  D.  Dana, 4 December 1862  and n.  2. CD sent Dana a presentation copy of Origin in 1859 ( …

From J. D. Hooker   23 October 1863

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With scientific party to Amiens to look at gravel-pits, the geology of which JDH describes at length.

Author:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  23 Oct 1863
Classmark:  DAR 101: 167–70
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4321

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  • 1859 . Frances Harriet Hooker (see letter from J.  D.  Hooker, 1 October 1863 ). Maria Elizabeth Hooker had died aged 6 on 28 September 1863 (see letters from J.  D.  Hooker, [28 September 1863] and 1 October 1863 ). Joseph Prestwich , Charles Lyell , and Hugh Falconer . …

From J. D. Dana   5 February 1863

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Hopes CD has received a copy of his [Manual of] Geology [1862]; justifies his assertion that geology provides no evidence to support the view that life has evolved through a method of development from species to species.

Author:  James Dwight Dana
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  5 Feb 1863
Classmark:  Yale University Library: Manuscripts and Archives (Dana Family Papers (MS 164) Series 1, Box 2, folder 44)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3969

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  • Falconer, Hugh. 1862. On the disputed affinity of the mammalian genus Plagiaulax , from the Purbeck beds. [Read 4 June 1862. ] Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 18: 348–69. [Vols. 10,11] Origin : On the origin of species by means of natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1859. …

From J. D. Hooker   [24 March 1863]

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Has been looking at separation of sexes in poplars.

Interested in reversion.

Does not understand all CD said on inheritance.

JDH now remembers that Origin was "published" some time before it was "distributed" and therefore appeared prior to his own essay [see also 2478].

Impossible to say whether some Dipterocarpaceae survived a cold period or have developed since.

Author:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [24 Mar 1863]
Classmark:  DAR 100: 154, DAR 101: 123–5
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2027

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  • 1859 , p.  cxxviii) read: I would further observe here, to avoid ambiguity, that my friend Mr.  Darwin’s just completed work ‘On the Origin of Species by Natural Selection,’ from the perusal of much of which in MS.  I have profited so largely, had not appeared during the printing of this Essay, or I should have largely quoted it. Hugh Falconer

To Asa Gray   11 November [1859]

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Sends copy of Origin for comments.

Does not feel AG’s views of migration after the last glaciation explain distribution in U. S. as well as CD’s view of migration prior to glaciation.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Asa Gray
Date:  11 Nov [1859]
Classmark:  Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (17)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2520

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  • 1859] ). CD refers to his letter to Asa Gray, 11 August [1858] . Gray cited James Dwight Dana as his authority for his view that there had been a warm period immediately following the glacial era. Gray postulated a second migration of northern plants south-wards as the temperature gradually cooled ( A.  Gray 1858–9 , pp.  448–9). Origin , pp.  370–2. Hugh Falconer , …

To Charles Lyell   3 October [1860]

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Comments on letter from Jeffries Wyman.

Discusses reprinting reviews by Asa Gray.

Mentions views of W. S. Symonds on the geological record.

Discusses descent of turtles and tortoises.

The universality of variation.

Notes only a few species leave modified descendants.

Discusses Apteryx.

Variation among pigeons.

Comments on fertility among hybrids.

Does not agree that he makes natural selection do too much work.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:  3 Oct [1860]
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.230)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2935

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  • Hugh Falconer . See letter from Charles Lyell, 30 September 1860 . CD gave the results of his measurements of pigeon skeletons in Variation 1: 162–79. He lent his manuscript on pigeons to Thomas Henry Huxley in January 1860 so that Huxley could use it in preparing his lecture to the Royal Institution on 10 February ( T.  H.  Huxley 1860a ). See Correspondence vol.  7, letters to T.  H.  Huxley, 13 December [1859] …
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