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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Hugh Falconer
Date:
[Dec? 1844]
Source of text:
DAR 144: 17
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.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Hugh Falconer
Date:
1845-7 or 1857-64
Source of text:
DAR 144: 21
Summary:

Arranges a time for visiting HF.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Hugh Falconer
Date:
8 Mar [1845?]
Source of text:
Raab Collection (dealer) (2 October 2013)
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.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Hugh Falconer
Date:
[2 March 1846]
Source of text:
RS:HS B27.71
Summary:

The committee dealing with applying to the government for aid should meet soon, and so JH wants some questions answered from one of the authors of Fauna Antiqua Sivalensis.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Hugh Falconer
Date:
16 Apr [1856]
Source of text:
DAR 144: 18
Summary:

Invites him to visit. JDH and one or two others coming.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Hugh Falconer
Date:
[7 Mar 1857]
Source of text:
DAR 144: 26
Summary:

Thinking about HF’s paper on Plagiaulax [Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 13 (1857): 261–82]. Owen might answer that all Purbeck mammals are marsupials.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Hugh Falconer
Date:
23 Nov 1857
Source of text:
DAR 144: 20
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.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Hugh Falconer
Date:
15 Oct [1858]
Source of text:
DAR 144: 34
Summary:

Cannot come to London until Tuesday. Arriving about 11: 15.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Hugh Falconer
Date:
11 Nov [1859]
Source of text:
Life and Letters 2: 216–17
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."

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Hugh Falconer
Date:
17 Dec [1859]
Source of text:
DAR 144: 22
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.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Hugh Falconer
Date:
12 July [1860]
Source of text:
DAR 144: 23
Summary:

Eldest daughter [Henrietta] very ill.

CD enjoys Owen’s having had "a good setting down".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Hugh Falconer
Date:
24 [June 1861]
Source of text:
Bellmans (dealers) (5 December 2019, lot 632)
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.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Hugh Falconer
Date:
[8 May 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 144: 24
Summary:

Will try to call tomorrow. What HF tells him about horses makes him eager to come.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Hugh Falconer
Date:
1 Oct [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 144: 25
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.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Hugh Falconer
Date:
4 Oct [1862]
Source of text:
Maggs Brothers (dealers) (catalogue 1345, 2003)
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.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Hugh Falconer
Date:
14 Nov [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 144: 27
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].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Hugh Falconer
Date:
29 Dec [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 144: 28
Summary:

Has HF met with any cases of what gardeners call "sports" and what CD will call "bud-variations"?

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Hugh Falconer
Date:
5 and 6 Jan 1863
Source of text:
DAR 144: 29
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.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Hugh Falconer
Date:
20 [Jan 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 144: 30
Summary:

If jaw belongs to Archaeopteryx, it will show great peculiarity. A German author has advanced the case as argument for Origin.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Hugh Falconer
Date:
22 Apr [1863]
Source of text:
DAR 144: 31
Summary:

Good of HF to tell him about Brazilian beast. So intermediate a form is "very glorious". Must assume it is very old.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project