To Hugh Falconer [8 May 1862]
Summary
Will try to call tomorrow. What HF tells him about horses makes him eager to come.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Hugh Falconer |
| Date: | [8 May 1862] |
| Classmark: | DAR 144: 24 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3539 |
To Hugh Falconer 1 October [1862]
Summary
Extreme interest in MS of HF’s paper on the American fossil elephant [Nat. Hist. Rev. n.s. 3 (1863): 43–114].
Pleased HF does not believe in immutable species. Significance of proboscidean group verging towards extinction. Comments on natural selection preserving type despite variability. Natural selection solves problem of how every part of each creature has become adapted.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Hugh Falconer |
| Date: | 1 Oct [1862] |
| Classmark: | DAR 144: 25 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3746 |
To Hugh Falconer 4 October [1862]
Summary
Explains that he returned the MS - part of a paper on fossil and living species of elephant (Falconer 1863) - to Falconer’s house in Park Crescent the previous Thursday.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Hugh Falconer |
| Date: | 4 Oct [1862] |
| Classmark: | Maggs Brothers (dealers) (catalogue 1345, 2003) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3751F |
To Hugh Falconer 14 November [1862]
Summary
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 |
To Hugh Falconer 29 December [1862]
Summary
Has HF met with any cases of what gardeners call "sports" and what CD will call "bud-variations"?
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Hugh Falconer |
| Date: | 29 Dec [1862] |
| Classmark: | DAR 144: 28 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3883 |
