Più lettere di Charles Darwin; un record delle sue opere in una serie di inediti lettersEdited da Francis Darwin e A.CSeward Volume 1 . ey. Falconer aveva proposto di Darwin per la Copley Medal of the RoyalSociety (che è stato assegnato a lui nel 1864), ma in stato di detenzione all'estero,ha dato le sue ragioni per il supporto di Darwin per questo onore in una lettera toSharpey, Segretario della Royal Society. Una copia della lettera hereprinted sembra aver dato a Erasmus Darwin, e da lui shownto suo fratello Charles. 1 probabilmente Tyndall sulla conformazione delle Alpi (^Phil. Mag.,1864, p. 255). 2 Ph

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More letters of Charles Darwin; a record of his works in a series of hitherto unpublished lettersEdited by Francis Darwin and A.CSeward Volume 1 . ey. Falconer had proposed Darwin for the Copley Medal of the RoyalSociety (which was awarded to him in 1864), but being detained abroad, he gave his reasons for supporting Darwin for this honour in a letter toSharpey, the Secretary of the Royal Society. A copy of the letter hereprinted seems to have been given to Erasmus Darwin, and by him shownto his brother Charles. 1 Probably Tyndall On the Conformation of the Alps (^Phil. Mag., 1864, p. 255). 2 Phil. Mag., 1864, p. 293. ^ This refers to a discussion on the Connection of the predominanceof Lakes with Glacial Action {Elements, Ed. VL, pp. 168-74). Lyelladheres to the views expressed in the Antiquity of Man (1863) againstRamsays theory of the origin of lake basins by ice action. ^ Hugh Falconer (1809-65) was a student at the Universities ofAberdeen and Edinburgh, and went out to India in 1830 as Assistant-Surgeon on the Bengal EstabHshment. In 1832 he succeeded Dr. Royleas the Superintendent of the Botanic Gardens at Saharunpur; and in. fiinlograp/i liy Hill (S= Adantson Hugh Palconer1844 i864—1869] FALCONER 253 Montauban. Oct. 25th, 1864. Letter 180 Busk and myself have made every effort to be back inLondon by the 27th inst., but we have been persecuted by 1848, after spending some years in England, he was appointed Super-intendent of the Calcutta Botanical Garden and Professor of Botany inthe Medical College. AUhough Falconer held an important botanicalpost for many years, he is chiefly known as a PaKtozoologist. He seems, however, to have had a share in introducing Cittchona into India. Hisdiscovery, in company with Colonel Sir Proby T. Cautley, of MioceneMammalia in the Siwalik Hills, was at the time perhaps the greatestfind which had been made. The fossils of the Siwalik Hills formedthe subject of Falconers most important book, Fauna Antigua Siva-lensis, which, howev

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