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
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Invites him to visit. JDH and one or two others coming.
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.
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.]
Cannot come to London until Tuesday. Arriving about 11: 15.
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."
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.