From Hugh Falconer 9 January 1863
21 Park Crescent.
9th. Jany/63
My Dear Darwin.
In my reply to your last note, I think I omitted to reply to your query about the free digits of Solenhofen Bird Creature.1 I have not yet examined it with the close scrutiny the case requires—nor can one well expect to do that until Owens paper is out: but the free digits are the two next the Axis i.e. the Radial digits: the ulnar one and outer having borne the big quill feathers.2 But mind this is only approximative.
Should you be writing at any time to Wallace I wish you would keep me in mind—for a further enquiry of him—regarding the Timor Mastodon remains3 Has he ever seen them? Where are they? or where can they be seen or hear about—or described?
Yours Ever Sinly | H Falconer
Footnotes
Bibliography
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Summary
Answers CD’s query on the free digits of Archaeopteryx.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-3909
- From
- Hugh Falconer
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- London, Park Crescent, 21
- Source of text
- DAR 164: 12
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 3909,” accessed on 19 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-3909.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 11