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DCP-LETT-3509

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

DCP-LETT-3791

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

DCP-LETT-2175

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

DCP-LETT-4636

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

DCP-LETT-2524

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

DCP-LETT-2587

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.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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