From:
Hugh Falconer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Oct 1862
Source of text:
DAR 164: 7
Summary:
Inquires whether previous letter was received by CD.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Hugh Falconer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Oct 1862
Source of text:
DAR 164: 8
Summary:
Although their views differ, HF is glad they can discuss those differences without offending.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Hugh Falconer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Nov [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 164: 9
Summary:
Sends paper on affinities of Plagiaulax ["On Plagiaulax from the Purbeck beds", Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 18 (1862): 348–69].
Contributor:
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From:
Hugh Falconer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Jan [1863]
Source of text:
DAR 164: 10
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].
Contributor:
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From:
Hugh Falconer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Jan [1863]
Source of text:
DAR 164: 11
Summary:
Comments on his elephant paper
and CD’s observations on dimorphism in Melastomataceae.
Contributor:
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From:
Hugh Falconer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Jan 1863
Source of text:
DAR 164: 12
Summary:
Answers CD’s query on the free digits of Archaeopteryx.
Contributor:
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From:
Hugh Falconer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Jan [1863]
Source of text:
DAR 164: 13
Summary:
Jaw with teeth found associated with Archaeopteryx fossil. Waterhouse pronounces it a fish’s jaw.
Contributor:
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From:
Hugh Falconer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Apr [1863]
Source of text:
DAR 164: 14
Summary:
Has been in France, conveys good wishes from Quatrefages.
Describes the fossil of an unusual mammal head from Brazil.
Contributor:
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From:
Hugh Falconer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Apr [1863]
Source of text:
DAR 164: 15
Summary:
Further description of the Toxodon-like mammal, Typotherium.
Contributor:
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From:
Hugh Falconer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Aug [1863]
Source of text:
DAR 164: 16
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.]
Contributor:
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From:
Hugh Falconer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Aug 1863
Source of text:
DAR 164: 17
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.
Contributor:
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From:
Hugh Falconer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Sept 1863
Source of text:
DAR 164: 18
Summary:
Is having E. Suess’s essay [see 4284] translated; will forward it as soon as it is done.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Hugh Falconer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 Dec [1863]
Source of text:
DAR 164: 25
Summary:
Returns a letter wrongly addressed by CD [4361].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Hugh Falconer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Nov 186[4]
Source of text:
DAR 164: 19
Summary:
Council of the Royal Society have awarded CD the Copley Medal.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Hugh Falconer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Nov [1864]
Source of text:
DAR 164: 20
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.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Hugh Falconer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Nov [1864]
Source of text:
DAR 164: 21
Summary:
Is sure that any of CD’s friends would be proud to accept the medal on his behalf.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Hugh Falconer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Dec 1864
Source of text:
DAR 164: 22
Summary:
The [Royal Society] President’s address is in the Reader [4 (1864): 708–9], but one or two sentences have been omitted.
Contributor:
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