From Ernst Haeckel 21 December 1871
Summary
Comments on Die Kalkschwämme [1872].
A Franciscan prior, Padre Buona-Grazia, agrees with human descent.
His trip to Dalmatia.
German reception of Descent.
Mentions current work.
| Author: | Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 21 Dec 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 56 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8114 |
To William Ogle 21 December [1871]
Summary
Thanks WO for a paper and for information about platysma. Has asked several persons to observe the muscle during a shivering fit, but all have failed.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Ogle |
| Date: | 21 Dec [1871] |
| Classmark: | DAR 261.5: 12 (EH 88205910) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8115 |
To A. C. Ramsay 21 December [1871]
Summary
Requests further information on subsidence of flagstones because of action of worms.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Andrew Crombie Ramsay |
| Date: | 21 Dec [1871] |
| Classmark: | DAR 261.9: 6 (EH 88205979) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8116 |
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Haeckel, Ernst | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Haeckel, Ernst | (1) |
| Ogle, William | (1) |
| Ramsay, A. C. | (1) |
Species and varieties
Summary
On the origin of species by means of natural selection …so begins the title of Darwin’s most famous book, and the reader would rightly assume that such a thing as ‘species’ must therefore exist and be subject to description. But the title continues, …or…
Matches: 6 hits
- … & yet all the genera have 1/2 a dozen synonyms’ ( letter to H. E. Strickland, [4 February 1849] …
- … and explicit in the work of contemporary naturalists. In a letter to his friend Joseph Hooker, he …
- … I believe, from trying to define the undefinable’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 24 December [1856] ). …
- … a selected quality to keep incipient species distinct’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 12 [December 1862] …
- … of hybrids might be produced by natural selection ( letter from A. R. Wallace, 1 March 1868 ). …
- … to ‘say no more but leave the problem as insoluble’ ( letter from A. R. Wallace, 8 [April] 1868 ). …
Living and fossil cirripedia
Summary
Darwin published four volumes on barnacles, the crustacean sub-class Cirripedia, between 1851 and 1854, two on living species and two on fossil species. Written for a specialist audience, they are among the most challenging and least read of Darwin’s works…
