To Hugh Falconer 1 October [1862]
Summary
Extreme interest in MS of HF’s paper on the American fossil elephant [Nat. Hist. Rev. n.s. 3 (1863): 43–114].
Pleased HF does not believe in immutable species. Significance of proboscidean group verging towards extinction. Comments on natural selection preserving type despite variability. Natural selection solves problem of how every part of each creature has become adapted.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Hugh Falconer |
| Date: | 1 Oct [1862] |
| Classmark: | DAR 144: 25 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3746 |
To Charles Lyell 1 October [1862]
Summary
Mentions a discussion of man by Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire in his Histoire naturelle générale [1854–62].
Mentions a book by Friedrich Rolle [Ch. Darwin’s Lehre von der Entstehung der Arten (1863)].
Cites evolutionary statements on elephants by Hugh Falconer and notes Falconer’s objection to natural selection.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 1 Oct [1862] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.282) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3747 |
To A. G. More 1 October [1862]
Summary
Thanks for information. Asks for more information about labellum of orchids.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Alexander Goodman More |
| Date: | 1 Oct [1862] |
| Classmark: | Royal Irish Academy (A. G. More papers RIA MS 4 B 46) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3748 |
| letter | (3) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Falconer, Hugh | (1) |
| Lyell, Charles | (1) |
| More, A. G. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Falconer, Hugh | (1) |
| Lyell, Charles | (1) |
| More, A. G. | (1) |
