To Ernst Haeckel 6 December [1865]
Summary
Not surprised at delay of his book [Generelle Morphologie (1866)].
P. M. Duncan taking side of evolution.
Has received paper on Geryonidae ["Über eine neue Form des Generationswechsels bei den Medusen", Monatsber. K. Akad. Wiss. Berlin (1865): 85–94]. Had often speculated on whether such a case ever occurred in nature.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel |
Date: | 6 Dec [1865] |
Classmark: | Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A–Abt. 1: 1–52/7) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4947 |
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- … To Ernst Haeckel 6 December [1865] …
- … Letter from Ernst Haeckel, 11 November 1865 . In his letter of 11 November 1865 , Haeckel …
- … died on 16 February 1864 (see letter from Ernst Haeckel, 11 November 1865 and n. 13). …
- … See letter from Ernst Haeckel, 11 November 1865 and n. 7. On Haeckel’s …
- … 1865d . See letter from Ernst Haeckel, 11 November 1865 and nn. 9 and 11. Haeckel 1864 …
- … Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A–Abt. 1: 1–52/7) Charles Robert Darwin Down 6 Dec [1865] …
- … 1865. ] Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 21: 349–63. Haeckel, Ernst. …
- … Ernst Haeckel, 9 March 1864 and nn. 3 and 4. In a paper read to the Geological Society of London on 8 March 1865, …
From Ernst Haeckel 11 November 1865
Summary
Has heard from Huxley that CD has been ill.
Progress on his book [Generelle Morphologie (1866)] has been slow.
Has been named "ordentlicher Professor". Has 150 listeners in his lectures on CD’s theory.
Thanks CD for copy [of "Climbing plants"].
Sends his book [Beiträge zur Naturgeschichte der Hydromedusen, 1. Heft: Die Familie der Rüsselquallen (Geryonidae) (1865)] and two articles.
Calls attention to a new rhizopod from Nice.
Author: | Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 11 Nov 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 40 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4934 |
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- … From Ernst Haeckel 11 November 1865 …
- … DAR 166: 40 Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel Jena 11 Nov 1865 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … Ernst Haeckel, 9 [July 1864] ). On the reception of CD’s theory in Germany, see letter from T. H. Huxley, 29 May 1865 …
- … 1865. ] Journal of the Linnean Society ( Botany ) 9 (1867): 1–118. Correspondence : The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–. Haeckel, Ernst. …
- … Ernst Haeckel, 26 October 1864 . CD’s annotated copy of Haeckel 1866 is in the Darwin Library–CUL (see Marginalia 1: 355–7). Haeckel succeeded Carl Gegenbaur as director of the Zoological Museum in Jena in 1862, and began a programme of improvement and acquisition. In the summer of 1865, …
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 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … vol. 13, letter from Ernst Haeckel, 11 November 1865 ). Williams & Norgate , booksellers …
- … vol. 13, letter from Ernst Haeckel, 11 November 1865 and nn. 11 and 12); a protoplasmic …
- … vol. 13, letter from Ernst Haeckel, 11 November 1865 and n. 4). Inside the back cover …
- … vol. 13, letter from Ernst Haeckel, 11 November 1865 and n. 13). There are …
- … vol. 13, letter from Ernst Haeckel, 11 November 1865 ). Records of the university of Jena …
- … Ernst Haeckel, 30 December [1863] – 3 January [1864] ). In his letter of 11 November 1865 , …
- … Ernst Haeckel, 19 July [1864] and n. 7. CD exchanged photographs with many of his correspondents during the 1860s (see Correspondence vols. 9–13, and Browne 1998 , pp. 253–80). The photograph has not been found. However, there is a portrait of Haeckel dated 1865 …
From G. J. Romanes [before 26 December 1875]
Summary
Asks to borrow Ernst Haeckel’s Beiträge zur Naturgeschichte der Hydromedusen (1865) [and Zur Entwicklungsgeschichte der Siphonophoren (1869)].
Has not been neglecting Pangenesis for Medusae.
Author: | George John Romanes |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 26 Dec 1875] |
Classmark: | E. D. Romanes 1896, p. 46 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10307 |
From Ernst Haeckel 9 [July 1864]
Summary
No book has made such a powerful impression on EH as the Origin. Most older German scholars opposed to it, but number of supporters growing among the young. Fortunately strength of religious dogmas now small among educated Germans. Situation in Jena especially favourable. Defended CD’s theory last year at Congress of German Scientists in Stettin.
Intends special study of jellyfish.
Plans general work on natural history.
Hard fate [death of Anna Sethe Haeckel] has made EH indifferent to criticism.
Colleagues August Schleicher and Carl Gegenbaur also convinced by CD’s theory.
Author: | Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 9 [July 1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 35 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4555 |
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- … 1864] , Correspondence vol. 13, letter from Ernst Haeckel, 11 November 1865 , and …
- … letter to Ernst Haeckel, 6 December [1865] ). Annotated copies of Haeckel 1864b and 1865b …
- … Haeckel published several works in 1864 and 1865 on the Coelenterata, a class of invertebrates that included sea anemones and medusae (see Haeckel 1864b , 1865a, 1865b). He eventually sent CD copies of these papers (see letter to Ernst …
To B. D. Walsh 19 December [1865]
Summary
Discusses a variety of subjects: Cynips, galls, potato bugs,
male Daphnia laying eggs.
His Primula experiment results differ from John Scott’s.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Benjamin Dann Walsh |
Date: | 19 Dec [1865] |
Classmark: | Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago (Walsh 6) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4952 |
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- … Haeckel 1865b ; see letter to Ernst Haeckel, 6 December [1865] and n. 9). See letter from …
- … 1865 ). In the concluding paragraph to his 1866 paper on willow-galls, Walsh cited subsequent research that confirmed Wagner’s description, adding: ‘Mr. Darwin writes me word that [Wagner’s observations] are believed by the distinguished English naturalist, Sir J. Lubbock’ ( Walsh 1866 , p. 288). In Variation 2: 384 n. , CD referred to a paper by Ernst Haeckel …
To Fritz Müller 9 December [1865]
Summary
Has forwarded FM’s MS to Max Schultze, but did not read it.
Movement of stem apex in Linum.
Haeckel’s paper on reproduction in certain Medusae.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
Date: | 9 Dec [1865] |
Classmark: | The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 4) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4949 |
From Ernst Haeckel 28 June 1867
Summary
Is engaged to marry Agnes Huschke. Will make wedding trip to Switzerland and Italy in autumn; therefore cannot visit CD as hoped.
Discusses present research. Comments on Protoamoeba with respect to origin of life. Says it makes question of common or separate origin of phyla unimportant.
CD to receive honorary diploma from Imperial Zoological Botanical Society in Vienna.
Sends photograph of Viennese botanist, August Kanitz.
Author: | Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 28 June 1867 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 45 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5576 |
To Fritz Müller 25 September [1866]
Summary
Fertilisation in orchids: Friedrich Hildebrand’s paper.
Self-sterility.
Climbing plants.
Agassiz’s attempts to eliminate all Darwinian views.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
Date: | 25 Sept [1866] |
Classmark: | The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 9) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5216 |
To J. D. Hooker 12 July [1864]
Summary
Ernst Haeckel writes that young German scientists are enthusiastic for natural selection.
Did JDH write the article in Natural History Review on trees not producing flowers ["Botanical lesson books", (1864): 355–69]?
Encourages Harvey to publish on his "disagreeable" monster plants.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 12 July [1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 241 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4561 |
To Ernst Haeckel 20 January [1866]
Summary
Sends copies of photographs of himself. Asks for photographs of German naturalists.
Comments on EH’s account of Protogenes primordialis.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel |
Date: | 20 Jan [1866] |
Classmark: | Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A-Abt. 1-52/8) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4980 |
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- … Ernst Haeckel, 10 August 1864 and nn. 2 and 3), and also enclosed a photograph taken in October 1865 …
- … 1865 (see Correspondence vol. 13). He was a philologist. The reference is to Haeckel 1866 (see letter from Ernst …
- … Ernst Haeckel, 11 January 1866 and n. 4). For CD’s interest in Haeckel’s work on the medusae, see Correspondence vol. 13, letter to J. D. Hooker, 4 May [1865] …
From J. D. Hooker 2 May 1865
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 May 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 20–1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4826 |
To G. J. Romanes 26 December 1875
Summary
Sends books.
Discusses GJR’s Pangenesis experiments; views of Galton on the theory.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George John Romanes |
Date: | 26 Dec 1875 |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.482) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10325 |
From T. H. Huxley 29 May 1865
Summary
Glad to read what CD sends. Any glimmer of light on those subjects is of utmost importance.
Quotes a letter from Haeckel on progress of Darwinism in Germany.
Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 29 May 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 307 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4838 |
Haeckel, Ernst. 1865b. Über eine neue Form des Generationswechsels bei den Medusen und über die Verwandtschaft der Geryoniden und Aeginiden. Monatsberichte der Königlichen Preußs. Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin (1865): 85–94.
From Ernst Haeckel 26 October 1864
Summary
Thanks CD for notes concerning the development of his ideas about the origin of species. Says August Schleicher and Carl Gegenbaur also interested.
Names new supporters of CD’s theory, including Max Schultze, Rudolf Leuckart, and Alexander Braun. Zoologists have been more interested than botanists.
He is writing a general work on the relationships among animals [Generelle Morphologie der Organismen (1866)].
Comments on Fritz Müller’s Für Darwin [1864].
Gegenbaur is revising his Grundzüge der vergleichenden Anatomie [2d ed. (1870)] to accord with evolution.
Thanks CD for copy of book on balanids [Living Cirripedia, vol. 2].
Author: | Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 26 Oct 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 39 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4646 |
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- … Ernst Haeckel, 10 August 1864 ). Haeckel published several essays on the Coelenterata between 1864 and 1865 ( …
- … 1865. Echiniscus Sigismundi, ein Arctiscoide der Nordsee. Archiv für mikroskopische Anatomie 1: 428–36. Uschmann, Georg. 1959. Geschichte der Zoologie und der zoologischen Anstalten in Jena 1779–1919. Jena: VEB Gustav Fischer. Uschmann, Georg. 1984. Ernst Haeckel. …
- … Ernst Haeckel, 9 [ July 1864] and n. 20. The reference is to the Swiss naturalist and invertebrate zoologist Edouard Claparède , who contracted rheumatic fever in 1854. The attack left him with chronic and disabling heart problems, his symptoms including palpitations and spitting blood from the lungs. The illness prevented him from working for months on end, and during 1865 …
From Ernst Krause 4 December 1880
Summary
Comments on Pangenesis. Quotes long passage from article by Fritz Müller concerning regeneration of lost members among crustaceans.
Kosmos has been sold to Eduard Koch in Stuttgart; will be converted into a weekly. Science will be de-emphasised. Krause seeking new publisher to continue on old basis.
Gustav Jäger injured in train accident.
Author: | Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 4 Dec 1880 |
Classmark: | DAR 169: 111 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12889 |
To J. D. Hooker 5 December [1866]
Summary
Is sending some plants and seeds to JDH.
Thanks Mrs Hooker for telling him of a life of his grandfather [Erasmus Darwin] of which he had not heard.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 5 Dec [1866] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 307 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5295 |
From August Schleicher 9 February 1865
Summary
Sends a pamphlet and photograph to CD [missing];
announces a botanical congress at Erfurt at which CD’s theory will be discussed.
Author: | August Schleicher |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 9 Feb 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 53 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4770 |
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- … Ernst Haeckel , 9 [July 1864] , 10 August 1864 , and 26 October 1864 ). For a discussion of Schleicher, Haeckel, and CD, see R. J. Richards 2001 . A general agricultural congress was held in Erfurt, Germany, between 9 and 17 September 1865 ( …
- … 1865. ] Origin : On the origin of species by means of natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1859. Richards, Robert J. 2001. The linguistic creation of man: Charles Darwin, August Schleicher, Ernst Haeckel, …
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