From Hugh Falconer 23 June 1861
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.
| Author: | Hugh Falconer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 23 June 1861 |
| Classmark: | DAR 99: 3–4 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3194 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … CD a live Proteus anguinus from Adelsberg cave. In his hands it will have a fair chance of …
- … 1861 My Dear Darwin I have been to Adelsberg Cave —and brought back with me a live Proteus …
- … This famous stalactite cave, the largest in Europe, is located near the town now known as …
- … Proteus anguinus (the olm) was first discovered in the Adelsberg cave ( EB ). CD had …
- … mentioned Proteus in Origin as one of several cave animals anomalous in not …
- … being related to non-cave-dwelling forms of the same continent and described such animals …
From Hugh Falconer 25 October and 12 November [1859]
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.
| Author: | Hugh Falconer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 25 Oct and 12 Nov 1859 |
| Classmark: | DAR 47: 215–17 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2511 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … deer of the glacial period have been found in a cave. They show great variety of form, but …
- … Falconer was investigating the fossiliferous caves of the Gower Peninsula in South Wales. …
- … expressed his belief that the worked flints discovered in caves in breccia and gravel …
- … deposits in France and in caves in England were indeed human tools contemporary with …
- … some interest for you. In a newly explored cave in South Wales, we have come upon no fewer …
From Hugh Falconer to William Sharpey 25 October 1864
Summary
Describes CD’s qualifications for Copley Medal.
| Author: | Hugh Falconer |
| Addressee: | William Sharpey |
| Date: | 25 Oct 1864 |
| Classmark: | DAR 144: 475 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4644 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … to Gibraltar to examine the geology of Genista Cave, Windmill Hill, and the fossil remains …
- … archaeological sites in France, including the cave of Les Eyzies in the Dordogne, which …
- … known examples of Stone Age engravings, and the cave at Bruniquel (see letters from Hugh …
- … the south of France, was the site of a cave rich in artefacts of early humans, including …
- … from Gibraltar to compare it with the cave at Windmill Hill (see n. 2, above). Busk had …
From Hugh Falconer 9 July [1860]
Summary
Hyaena remains show how recently Sicily was joined to Africa.
Reports on the Oxford meeting of BAAS.
| Author: | Hugh Falconer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 9 July [1860] |
| Classmark: | DAR 164.1: 5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2863 |
To Hugh Falconer 17 December [1859]
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.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Hugh Falconer |
| Date: | 17 Dec [1859] |
| Classmark: | DAR 144: 22 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2587 |
To Hugh Falconer 24 [June 1861]
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.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Hugh Falconer |
| Date: | 24 [June 1861] |
| Classmark: | Bellmans (dealers) (5 December 2019, lot 632) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3196 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … a live Proteus anguinus (the olm), a blind cave salamander (see letter from Hugh Falconer, …
To Hugh Falconer 22 April [1863]
Summary
Good of HF to tell him about Brazilian beast. So intermediate a form is "very glorious". Must assume it is very old.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Hugh Falconer |
| Date: | 22 Apr [1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 144: 31 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4121 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … as is too probable, a comparatively modern cave-fossil, the fact will not be altogether so …
From Hugh Falconer 3 November 186[4]
Summary
Council of the Royal Society have awarded CD the Copley Medal.
| Author: | Hugh Falconer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 3 Nov 186[4] |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 19 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4652 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … September to investigate fossils in the caves at Gibraltar ( see letter from Hugh Falconer …
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The Lyell–Lubbock dispute
Summary
In May 1865 a dispute arose between John Lubbock and Charles Lyell when Lubbock, in his book Prehistoric times, accused Lyell of plagiarism. The dispute caused great dismay among many of their mutual scientific friends, some of whom took immediate action…
Matches: 4 hits
- … History Review , Lubbock produced a final article on ‘Cave-men’ (Lubbock 1864) that summarised …
- … and Joseph Prestwich properly for their work in the Brixham cave explorations of 1858 and 1859. 5 …
- … Review n.s. 3: 211–19. Lubbock, John. 1864. Cave-men. Natural History Review n.s. 4: …
- … Press. Wilson, Leonard Gilchrist. 1996a. Brixham Cave and Sir Charles Lyell’s … the …
Hermann Müller
Summary
Hermann (Heinrich Ludwig Hermann) Müller, was born in Mühlberg near Erfurt in 1829. He was the younger brother of Fritz Müller (1822–97). Following the completion of his secondary education at Erfurt in 1848, he studied natural sciences at Halle and Berlin…
Matches: 1 hits
- … Carniolan Alps (now in Slovenia), he discovered an eyeless cave beetle; it was the subject of his …
Darwin in letters, 1863: Quarrels at home, honours abroad
Summary
At the start of 1863, Charles Darwin was actively working on the manuscript of The variation of animals and plants under domestication, anticipating with excitement the construction of a hothouse to accommodate his increasingly varied botanical experiments…
Matches: 1 hits
- … with bones from animals like the woolly mammoth and cave bear ( see letter from Jacques Boucher de …
Darwin in letters, 1860: Answering critics
Summary
On 7 January 1860, John Murray published the second edition of Darwin’s Origin of species, printing off another 3000 copies to satisfy the demands of an audience that surprised both the publisher and the author. It wasn't long, however, before ‘the…
Matches: 1 hits
- … the explanation of the origin and distribution of blind cave animals. Darwin attempted to answer …
Science: A Man’s World?
Summary
Discussion Questions|Letters Darwin's correspondence show that many nineteenth-century women participated in the world of science, be it as experimenters, observers, editors, critics, producers, or consumers. Despite this, much of the…
Matches: 1 hits
- … woman “except a she bear or so” to have entered the cave “since the flood”. Letter 13414 …
Women’s scientific participation
Summary
Observers | Fieldwork | Experimentation | Editors and critics | Assistants Darwin’s correspondence helps bring to light a community of women who participated, often actively and routinely, in the nineteenth-century scientific community. Here is a…
Matches: 1 hits
- … woman “except a she bear or so” to have entered the cave “since the flood”. Letter …
Language: key letters
Summary
How and why language evolved bears on larger questions about the evolution of the human species, and the relationship between man and animals. Darwin presented his views on the development of human speech from animal sounds in The Descent of Man (1871),…
Matches: 1 hits
- … Manchester, and the author of a book on early humans (Cave Dwellers) remarks on recent discussions …
Darwin in letters, 1864: Failing health
Summary
On receiving a photograph from Charles Darwin, the American botanist Asa Gray wrote on 11 July 1864: ‘the venerable beard gives the look of your having suffered, and … of having grown older’. Because of poor health, Because of poor health, Darwin…
Matches: 1 hits
- … urged financial support for the exploration of a Borneo cave in the hope that hominid fossils would …
