To Hugh Falconer 4 November [1864]
Summary
[Copley] Medal very great honour. Cordial thanks.
Chuckled over [Gaspard-Auguste] Brullé and pupils.
Splendid converts in Rudolf Leuckart and Carl Gegenbaur.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Hugh Falconer |
Date: | 4 Nov [1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 144: 35 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4656 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … the converts to CD’s theory. See letter from Hugh Falconer, 3 November 186[4] and n. 4. …
- … between this letter and the letter from Hugh Falconer, 3 November 186[4] . CD refers …
- … from Hugh Falconer to William Sharpey, 25 October 1864 . See letter …
- … Copley Medal. See letter from Hugh Falconer, 3 November 186[4] and n. 2. See also letter …
- … from Hugh Falconer, 3 November 186[4] and n. 7. See letter from Ernst Haeckel, 26 …
- … Hugh Falconer, 3 November 186[4] and n. 3. CD refers to Gaspard Auguste Brullé . See letter …
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: 5 hits
- … Letter to Hugh Falconer, [25–6 August 1863] . …
- … conjecture. The first part of the letter to Hugh Falconer, [25–6 August 1863] , is …
- … See letter from Hugh Falconer, 24 August [1863] , and letter …
- … from Hugh Falconer, 24 August [1863] , and letter to Hugh Falconer, [25–6 August 1863] ). …
- … Hugh Falconer, [25–6 August 1863] and n. 3. Falconer was interested in the stability of specific characteristics over long periods of geological time (see Falconer 1863a , p. 80). Falconer refers to Eduard Suess and to Suess 1863 (see letter …
From Alfred Russel Wallace 14 January [1863]
Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 14 Jan [1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 106: B7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3915 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … between this letter and the letter from Hugh Falconer, 9 January 1863 (see n. 6, below). …
- … has not been found. In his letter to Hugh Falconer, 5 [and 6] January [1863] , CD …
- … from Hugh Falconer, 3 January [1863] , letter to J. D. Hooker, 3 January [1863] and …
- … Hugh Falconer of 5 [and 6] January [1863] , CD described himself as having been ‘knocked up of late with extraordinary facility’. See also letter …
To Hugh Falconer 6 January [1865]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Hugh Falconer |
Date: | 6 Jan [1865] |
Classmark: | DAR 144: 38 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4740 |
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 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … Letter to Hugh Falconer, 1 October [1862] . …
- … from Hugh Falconer, 24–7 September [1862] , and letter to Hugh Falconer, 1 October [ …
- … Hugh Falconer, 3 October 1862 . CD stayed at 6 Queen Anne Street, Cavendish Square (the London home of his brother, Erasmus Alvey Darwin ) on Monday 29 September 1862, on the way home from his holiday in Bournemouth ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). See also letter …
To Hugh Falconer [8 May 1862]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Hugh Falconer |
Date: | [8 May 1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 144: 24 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3539 |
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 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … relationship between this letter, the letter from Hugh Falconer, 9 January 1863 , and the …
- … Wallace, 30 November 1861 . See letter to Hugh Falconer, 5 [and 6] January [1863] , and …
- … 1863 , pp. 96–101). See also letter to Hugh Falconer, 5 [and 6] January [1863] and n. 6, …
- … part of the Malay Archipelago. See letter from Hugh Falconer, 3 January [1863] and n. 11. …
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 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … a novel form of dimorphism (see letter to Hugh Falconer, 5 [and 6] January [1863] and n. …
- … between this letter and the letter to Hugh Falconer, 5 [and 6] January [1863] . …
- … n. 1). See also Blake 1862 . See letter to Hugh Falconer, 5 [and 6] January [1863] ; the …
- … summary is in DAR 205.9: 367. See letter to Hugh Falconer, 5 [and 6] January [1863] . On …
- … Hugh Falconer, 5 [and 6] January [1863] , CD condemned Richard Owen for his ‘lies and mean conduct’ over the priority dispute regarding Elephas columbi (see letter …
From Hugh Falconer 10 November [1864]
Author: | Hugh Falconer |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 Nov [1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 164: 21 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4669 |
From George Busk 1 December 1864
Author: | George Busk |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 Dec 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 379 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4689 |
To Hugh Falconer 4 December [1864]
Summary
Much pleased by Edward Sabine’s address.
Grateful to HF for his interest [in the award of Copley Medal to CD].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Hugh Falconer |
Date: | 4 Dec [1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 144: 37 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4698 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … the relationship between this letter and the letter from Hugh Falconer, 2 December 1864 . …
- … from Hugh Falconer, 2 December 1864 and n. 3). See letter from J. D. Hooker, 2 …
- … Hugh Falconer, 2 December 1864 . CD refers to Edward Sabine and the publication in the Reader , 3 December 1864, pp. 708–9, of his anniversary address delivered at the Royal Society of London (see letter …
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 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … by the relationship between this letter, the letter from Hugh Falconer, 24 August [1863] , …
- … 10, letter to Hugh Falconer, 1 October [1862] , and this volume, letter to J. D. Hooker, …
- … Falconer’s criticism of Charles Lyell’s Antiquity of man ( C. Lyell 1863a ) in the Athenæum . See letter from Hugh …
- … Hugh Falconer, 29 August 1863 , and by the reference to CD’s visit to Malvern (see n. 6, below). Francis Darwin dated this letter …
- … Falconer to an analogous case of the persistence of specific characters in a mammal species from the Pliocene to the present (see letter from Hugh …
- … Falconer, 24 August [1863] ). There is an annotated copy of Owen 1846b in the Darwin Library–CUL (see Marginalia 1: 649–52). The references are to Eduard Suess and to Suess 1863 . In Suess 1863 , Suess had linked Falconer’s views on species with those of Oswald Heer (see letter from Hugh …
From Hugh Falconer to E. A. Darwin 5 January [1865]
Author: | Hugh Falconer |
Addressee: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
Date: | 5 Jan [1865] |
Classmark: | DAR 164: 24 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4739 |
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 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 |
Matches: 10 hits
- … species Linum trigynum (see letter from Hugh Falconer, 3 January [1863] ). CD’s paper, ‘ …
- … January [1863] and n. 14. See letter from Hugh Falconer, 3 January [1863] and n. 14. No …
- … see Correspondence vol. 10, letter from Hugh Falconer, 24–7 September [1862] , and letter …
- … to Hugh Falconer, 1 October [1862] , and this volume, letter …
- … a recently discovered fossil that Falconer had described to him (see letter from Hugh …
- … J. D. Hooker, 3 January [1863] and n. 1. Falconer 1863a , pp. 43–9. Letter from Hugh …
- … Hugh Falconer, 3 January [1863] ). For CD’s comments on the charges made by Falconer against Owen, see the letter …
- … Falconer maintained that Owen’s M. australis was a specimen of M. andinum , a South American species ( Falconer 1863a , pp. 96–101). See also Correspondence vol. 10, letter to Hugh …
- … Falconer, 3 January [1863] ; the enclosure has not been found. In his letter to Falconer of 14 November [1862] ( Correspondence vol. 10), CD asked whether Falconer knew of any cases of sexual dimorphism analogous to those described by CD in his paper, ‘Dimorphic condition in Primula ’ ; CD also asked Falconer for information on ‘sports’ or ‘bud-variations’ (see Correspondence vol. 10, letter to Hugh …
- … Falconer, 3 January [1863] and n. 7). In 1859, CD wrote to Charles Lyell : ‘I believe that if ever fossil birds are found very low down in series, they will be seen to have a double or bifurcated wing’ (see Correspondence vol. 7, letter to Charles Lyell, 11 October [1859] ). Martius 1862 . See letter from Hugh …
To Hugh Falconer 12 July [1860]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Hugh Falconer |
Date: | 12 July [1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 144: 23 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2865 |
To Edouard Claparède [c. 16 April 1862]
Summary
Thanks correspondent for his excellent review [of French edition of Origin (1862)], which he feels will help the spread of his views in France.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Jean Louis René Antoine Edouard (Edouard) Claparède |
Date: | [c. 16 Apr 1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 96: 17 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4371 |
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 |
To Hugh Falconer 8 November [1864]
Summary
Gratified to receive Copley Medal. Cannot attend anniversary [of Royal Society]. Would HF receive medal for him?
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Hugh Falconer |
Date: | 8 Nov [1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 144: 36 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4664 |
From Hugh Falconer 7 November [1864]
Summary
Hopes CD will be able to receive the Copley Medal in person. HF sees it as doubly significant in recognising CD’s work and as a protest against the profession of religious as opposed to scientific faith.
Author: | Hugh Falconer |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 Nov [1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 164: 20 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4662 |
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