To Ernst Haeckel 29 April 1879
Down, | Beckenham, Kent. | Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R.
April 29th. 1879
My dear Häckel
I have just finished reading the English Translation (for from want of time I had deferred reading the French Translation) of your “Freedom in Science &c”, & you must let me have the pleasure of saying how much I admire the whole of it.1 It is a most interesting essay, & I agree with all of it. Virchow’s conduct is shameful & I hope he will someday feel shame.2 What an amazing Preface that by Huxley is.3
With all good wishes | Yours ever sincerely | Charles Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Haeckel, Ernst. 1878b. Freie Wissenschaft und freie Lehre: eine Entgegnung auf Rudolf Virchow’s Münchner Rede über ‘Die Freiheit der Wissenschaft im modernen Staat’. Stuttgart: E. Schweizerbart.
Haeckel, Ernst. 1879d. Les preuves du transformisme: réponse a Virchow. Translated from the German with a prefatory note by Jules Soury. Paris: G. Baillière.
Haeckel, Ernst. 1879e. Freedom in science and teaching; from the German of Ernst Haeckel with a prefatory note by T. H. Huxley F.R.S. London: C. Kegan Paul & Co.
Summary
Admires EH’s Freie Wissenschaft und freie Lehre [1878].
Virchow’s conduct is shameful.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-12017
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A-Abt. 1: 1–52/47 [A 9901])
- Physical description
- ALS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 12017,” accessed on 28 March 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-12017.xml