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From:
Hugh Falconer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1842–3]
Source of text:
DAR 205.5: 215
Summary:

Has seen lately a true ruminant with the two central metacarpals distinct. It was the foot of an Anoplotherium in a recent ruminant.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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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:
Hugh Falconer
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[16 December 1844]
Source of text:
RS:HS 7.365
Summary:

Is grateful for his interest. Met the Trustees who promised to apply to the government for a grant of £1000 to assist his work.

Contributor:
John Herschel 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:
Hugh Falconer
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[13 March 1846]
Source of text:
RS:HS B27.72 & 73
Summary:

As HF is likely to be immediately ordered back to India, he is in no position to prepare himself to appear before the government seeking funds to publish Fauna Antiqua Sivalensis. Encloses a brief statement to the above effect to be read to the B.A.A.S. committee.

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:
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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:
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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:
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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:
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From:
Hugh Falconer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Oct and 12 Nov 1859
Source of text:
DAR 47: 215–17
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.

Contributor:
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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:
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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:
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From:
Hugh Falconer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 July [1860]
Source of text:
DAR 164.1: 5
Summary:

Hyaena remains show how recently Sicily was joined to Africa.

Reports on the Oxford meeting of BAAS.

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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:
Hugh Falconer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 June 1861
Source of text:
DAR 99: 3–4
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.

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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:
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From:
Hugh Falconer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 May [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 205.9: 380
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.

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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