| Authorised form of name | Falconer; Hugh (1808 - 1865) |
| Dates | 1808 - 1865 |
| Nationality | British |
| Place of birth | Forres, Morayshire, Scotland |
| Date of birth | 29 February 1808 |
| Place of death | London |
| Date of death | 31 January 1865 |
| DatesAndPlaces | Burial:
Kensal Green cemetery, London |
| Occupation | Physician |
| Research field | Palaeontology |
| Botany |
| Activity | Education:
AM; MD
Career:
Physician, Bengal Medical Service, HEIC; Superintendent, Botanic Garden, Saharunpur (before 1845)
Memberships:
FLS; FGS
|
| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 13/02/1845 |
| RSActivity | Royal Society roles:
VP 1863-1864 |
| Source | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB; DSB
Obituaries:
Proc Roy Soc 1866-1867 vol 15 pp xiv-xx
References:
Joyce Brown, 'A Memoir of Colonel Sir Proby Cautley, FRS, 1802-1871, Engineer and Palaeontologist' in NR 1979-80 vol 34 pp 185-225
R W Home, 'The Royal Society and the Empire: the colonial and Commonwealth Fellowship. Part 1. 1731-1847' in NR 2002 vol 56 pp 307-332 |
| Virtual International Authority File | http://viaf.org/viaf/56760550 |
| Code | NA7096 |
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| EC/1845/09 | Falconer, Hugh: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| M/121 | Wollaston Medal of the Geological Society awarded to Hugh Falconer | 1837 |
| MC/7/37 | Letter from H [Hugh] Falconer, 21 Park Crescent, Portland Place, to General [Edward] Sabine, [President of the Royal Society] | 23 March 1864 |
| IM/001354 | Falconer, Hugh | nd |
| MM/19/86 | Letter from Henry James, Ordnance Survey Office, to Hugh Falconer | 27 December 1864 |
| RR/4/8 | Letter from Hugh Falconer, on a paper 'Observations on the discovery in various localities of the remains of human art mixed with the bones of extinct races of animals' by Charles Babbage | 11 June 1859 |
| RR/3/98 | Referee's report by Hugh Falconer, on a paper 'On chondrosteus, an extinct genus of the sturionidæ, found in the lias formation at Lyme Regis' by Phillip de Malpas Grey Egerton | 12 June 1858 |
| MS/426/150 | Copy letter from C R [Charles Richard] Weld, the Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Hugh Falconer M D | 23 October 1845 |
| MC/4/110 | Letter from Dr Hugh Falconer, 23 Norfolk Street, Strand, to Dr [Peter Mark] Roget, Secretary of the Royal Society | 15 December 1845 |
| MC/5/345 | Extract from a letter of Dr Falconer to the Secretary of the Geological Society | 10 May 1858 |
| RR/4/194 | Referee's report by Hugh Falconer, on a paper 'On the dicynodont reptilia, with a description of some fossil remains brought by H. R. H. Prince Alfred from South Africa, November 1860' by Richard Owen | 26 March 1862 |
| RR/5/123 | Referee's report by Hugh Falconer, on a paper 'On the osteology of the genus glyptodon' by Thomas Henry Huxley | 2 May 1864 |
| MC/4 | Volume 4 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society | 1844-1850 |
| MC/5 | Volume 5 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society | 1851-1858 |
| MM/14/72 | 'On the expediencey of instituting in the body of the Royal Society a new class of Foreign Associates to be designated "Correspondents" or "Corresponding Members"', by Hugh Falconer | 1864 |
| MC/7/134 | Letter from H [Hugh] Falconer, 21 Park Crescent, to [William] Sharpey, [Secretary of the Royal Society] | 7 November 1864 |
| MC/7/338 | Letter from Charles Murchison, 79 Wimpole Street, London, to Dr [William] Sharpey, Secretary of the Royal Society | 6 June 1866 |
| MC/7/359 | Letter from [Charles] Murchison, 79 Wimpole Street, London, to Walter White, [Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society] | 6 October 1866 |
| MC/7 | Volume 7 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society | 1864-1866 |
| AP/45/12 | Letters, regarding fossil finds at Abbeville [France] from various correspondents | 1863 |
| AP/45/12/2 | Letter, 'The reputed fossil man of Abbeville [France]' from H [Hugh] Falconer to the Editor of The Times | 23 April 1863 |
| AP/45/12/3 | Letter, 'The human jaw of Abbeville [France]' from H [Hugh] Falconer to the Editor of The Times | 19 May 1863 |
| S/0011 | Sculpture bust of Falconer, Hugh | 1866 |
| RR/5/112 | Referee's report by Hugh Falconer, on a paper 'On the fossil flora of Bovey Tracey' by Oswald Heer | 15 February 1862 |
| RR/5/162 | Referee's report by Hugh Falconer, on a paper 'On the Archeopteryx of von Meyer, with a description of the fossil remains of a long-tailed species, from the lithographic stone of Solenhofen' by Richard Owen | 20 December 1862 |