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 [1842–3]
Summary
Has seen lately a true ruminant with the two central metacarpals distinct. It was the foot of an Anoplotherium in a recent ruminant.
Author: | Hugh Falconer |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [1842–3] |
Classmark: | DAR 205.5: 215 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13805 |
To Hugh Falconer [December? 1844]
Summary
Returns notes on mule yaks [see Natural selection, p. 438]
and sends queries on silkworms.
A bed is ready any time HF will come.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Hugh Falconer |
Date: | [Dec? 1844] |
Classmark: | DAR 144: 17 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1691 |
To Hugh Falconer 8 March [1845?]
Summary
Has written down what he gathered from HF on Tibetan dogs. Would welcome a few more details at any time, as he knows of nothing parallel to it.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Hugh Falconer |
Date: | 8 Mar [1845?] |
Classmark: | Raab Collection (dealer) (2 October 2013) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1839 |
To Hugh Falconer 23 November 1857
Summary
Can HF ask Col. E. Dickie [probably Col. Edward John Dickey] enclosed questions about Indian horses? [Questions relate to striped markings on the Kutch breed of horses.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Hugh Falconer |
Date: | 23 Nov 1857 |
Classmark: | DAR 144: 20 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2175 |
To Hugh Falconer [1845?–7 or 1857–64]
Summary
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 |
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 |
To Hugh Falconer 11 November [1859]
Summary
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 |
To Hugh Falconer 17 December [1859]
Summary
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 |
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 |
To Hugh Falconer 12 July [1860]
Summary
Eldest daughter [Henrietta] very ill.
CD enjoys Owen’s having had "a good setting down".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Hugh Falconer |
Date: | 12 July [1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 144 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2865 |
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 |
To Hugh Falconer 24 [June 1861]
Summary
Thanks HF for offer of valuable specimen, but CD has no aquarium. Suggests the Zoological Society would be the best place for it.
Will keep HF’s note among a very few precious letters.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Hugh Falconer |
Date: | 24 [June 1861] |
Classmark: | Bellmans (dealers) (5 December 2019, lot 632) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3196 |
To Hugh Falconer 16 April [1856]
Summary
Invites him to visit. JDH and one or two others coming.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Hugh Falconer |
Date: | 16 Apr [1856] |
Classmark: | DAR 144: 18 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3509 |
From Hugh Falconer 7 May [1862]
Summary
Wanted to talk with CD about the astonishing new Pliocene fossil discoveries in North America reported by Leidy. One horse fossil’s dentition, if it could be believed, would be of great interest to CD’s views.
Author: | Hugh Falconer |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 May [1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 205.9: 380 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3538 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
From Hugh Falconer 3 October 1862
Author: | Hugh Falconer |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 Oct 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 164: 7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3750 |
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 |
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Falconer, Hugh | (26) |
Darwin, C. R. | (25) |
Darwin, E. A. | (2) |
Falconer, Hugh | (27) |
Darwin, C. R. | (23) |
Darwin, E. A. | (2) |
Sharpey, William | (1) |
Falconer, Hugh | (53) |
Darwin, C. R. | (48) |
Darwin, E. A. | (4) |
Sharpey, William | (1) |