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From Ernst Haeckel 11 January 1866
Summary
Comments on CD’s health.
Discusses origin of life and differentiation of principal classes of plants and animals.
Discusses Generelle Morphologie and its chapter on embryological development.
His lectures on CD’s theory.
Asks CD for larger portrait of himself and for several copies of the small photograph. Will send photographs of German scientists in exchange.
| Author: | Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 11 Jan 1866 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 41 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4973 |
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- … Typen, Branches, Embranchemens) ungefähr 10 oder 12 im Ganzen an und werde diese Annahme …
- … organisms. I take it there are roughly 10 or 12 such main classes (types, branches, …
- … see Correspondence vol. 12, letter from Ernst Haeckel, 10 August 1864 ; see also ibid. , …
- … 10, letter from E. Schweizerbart’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, 7 June 1862 and n. 5); it was taken by Maull & Polyblank , circa 1857. The photograph is reproduced as the frontispiece to Correspondence vol. 8. Haeckel refers to the first photograph of CD with a beard, taken in 1864 by his son William Erasmus Darwin . The photograph is reproduced as the frontispiece to Correspondence vol. 12. …
From Ernst Haeckel 28 January 1866
Summary
Discusses exchange of photographs with German scientists.
Comments on attitudes of German scientists toward CD’s theory.
Names several scientists who exchanged photographs: Braun, Virchow, Leydig, and Dohrn.
| Author: | Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 28 Jan 1866 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 42 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4985 |
Document type
| letter | (2) |
Correspondent
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Haeckel, Ernst |
