To Hugh Falconer 4 [September 1863]1
Malvern Wells
Friday 4th.
My dear Falconer
I write merely to give you my address;2 but please do not lend me Suess, unless you can spare it for a month, as I have no brains or German Dictionary to read anything at all difficult.3
I see Carter Blake was well pitched into at Newcastle.4 Many thanks for Armstrong’s admirable speech.5
Your very stupid friend | C. Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Armstrong, William George. 1863. [Presidential address.] Report of the 33d meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, held at Newcastle-upon-Tyne, pp. li–lxiv.
Blake, Charles Carter. 1863b. On some points in the cranioscopy of South American nations. Report of the 33d meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, held at Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Transactions of the sections, pp. 133–4.
Rainger, Ronald. 1978. Race, politics, and science: the Anthropological Society of London in the 1860s. Victorian Studies 22: 51–70.
Stepan, Nancy. 1982. The idea of race in science: Great Britain 1800–1960. London: Macmillan in association with St Anthony’s College, Oxford.
Stocking, George W., Jr. 1987. Victorian anthropology. New York: The Free Press. London: Collier Macmillan.
Suess, Eduard. 1863. Über die Verschiedenheit und die Aufeinanderfolge der tertiären Landfaunen in der Niederung von Wien. Sitzungsberichte der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften. Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Classe 47 (pt 1): 306–31.
Summary
Sends address.
Comments on BAAS meeting at Newcastle.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-4293
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Hugh Falconer
- Sent from
- Malvern Wells
- Source of text
- DAR 144: 33
- Physical description
- C 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 4293,” accessed on 19 March 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-4293.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 11