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DCP-LETT-3899

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].

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DCP-LETT-3908

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.

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DCP-LETT-3909

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.

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DCP-LETT-3926

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.

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DCP-LETT-4113

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.

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DCP-LETT-4125

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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DCP-LETT-4273A

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.]

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DCP-LETT-4284

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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DCP-LETT-4298

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:
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DCP-LETT-4362

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].

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