From Hugh Falconer 3 January [1863]
Summary
Describes an astounding "sort of mis-begotten-bird-creature", the Archaeopteryx, a grand Darwinian case.
His elephant paper is out in Natural History Review [(1863): 43–114].
| Author: | Hugh Falconer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 3 Jan [1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 10 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3899 |
To Hugh Falconer 5 [and 6] January [1863]
Summary
His admiration for HF’s paper on American fossil elephant.
Notes "temporary irruption of S. American forms into N. America".
Rejoices that HF has "smashed" case of Mastodon on Timor.
Shares HF’s anger at Owen.
He is eager to hear about fossil bird [Archaeopteryx].
Comments on criticisms of species theory by [Johann Andreas?] Wagner.
Describes research on fertilisation of Melastomataceae.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Hugh Falconer |
| Date: | 5 and 6 Jan 1863 |
| Classmark: | DAR 144: 29 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3901 |
From Hugh Falconer 8 January [1863]
Summary
Comments on his elephant paper
and CD’s observations on dimorphism in Melastomataceae.
| Author: | Hugh Falconer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 8 Jan [1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 11 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3908 |
From Hugh Falconer 9 January 1863
Summary
Answers CD’s query on the free digits of Archaeopteryx.
| Author: | Hugh Falconer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 9 Jan 1863 |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 12 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3909 |
From Hugh Falconer 18 January [1863]
Summary
Jaw with teeth found associated with Archaeopteryx fossil. Waterhouse pronounces it a fish’s jaw.
| Author: | Hugh Falconer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 18 Jan [1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 13 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3926 |
To Hugh Falconer 20 [January 1863]
Summary
If jaw belongs to Archaeopteryx, it will show great peculiarity. A German author has advanced the case as argument for Origin.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Hugh Falconer |
| Date: | 20 [Jan 1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 144: 30 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3928 |
From Hugh Falconer 20 April [1863]
Summary
Has been in France, conveys good wishes from Quatrefages.
Describes the fossil of an unusual mammal head from Brazil.
| Author: | Hugh Falconer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 20 Apr [1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 14 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4113 |
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 |
From Hugh Falconer 24 April [1863]
Summary
Further description of the Toxodon-like mammal, Typotherium.
| Author: | Hugh Falconer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 24 Apr [1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 15 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4125 |
From Hugh Falconer 24 August [1863]
Summary
Sends information about Pliocene fauna of the "Forest Bed" of the Norfolk coast.
A genus described as extinct by Owen is found by E. A. I. H. Lartet to exist in Russia.
Edouard Suess attributes to Oswald Heer and HF the generalisation "That the time during which a new species is formed, is (as a rule) very short in comparison with the time during which it persistently presents the same peculiar specific characters". [Edouard Suess, "Über die Verschiedenheit und die Aufeinanderfolge der tertiären Landfaunen in der Niederung von Wien", Sitzungsberichte der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien (Math-naturw. Klasse) 47 (1863): 306–31.] [See 4277.]
| Author: | Hugh Falconer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 24 Aug [1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 16 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4273A |
To Hugh Falconer [25–6 August 1863]
Summary
Thanks for information about Pliocene mammal. Interested in relating process of formation to duration of the species. Oswald Heer’s view that species suddenly formed surely false.
Bad summer with much sickness. Going to Malvern [for water-cure] for a month.
Muddled over phyllotaxy and made out nothing.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Hugh Falconer |
| Date: | [25–6 Aug 1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 144: 32 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4277 |
From Hugh Falconer 29 August 1863
Summary
HF will send E. Suess’s paper [Edouard Suess, "Über die Verschiedenheit und die Aufeinanderfolge der tertiären Landfaunen in der Niederung von Wien", Sitzungsberichte der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien (Math–nat. Klasse) 47 (1863): 306–31] which deals directly with natural selection.
| Author: | Hugh Falconer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 29 Aug 1863 |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 17 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4284 |
To Hugh Falconer 4 [September 1863]
Summary
Sends address.
Comments on BAAS meeting at Newcastle.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Hugh Falconer |
| Date: | 4 [Sept 1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 144: 33 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4293 |
From Hugh Falconer 10 September 1863
Summary
Is having E. Suess’s essay [see 4284] translated; will forward it as soon as it is done.
| Author: | Hugh Falconer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 10 Sept 1863 |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 18 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4298 |
From Hugh Falconer 31 December [1863]
Summary
Returns a letter wrongly addressed by CD [4361].
| Author: | Hugh Falconer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 31 Dec [1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 25 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4362 |
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| Falconer, Hugh | (15) |
