From Ernst Haeckel 10 August 1864
Summary
Sends photographs of himself and his late wife [Anna Sethe]. Describes death of his wife.
Plans trip to the Alps.
Thanks CD for biographical information about himself.
Mentions Goethe as early evolutionist.
Cites Kant as early supporter of epigenesis.
Mentions criticism of CD’s theory by R. A. von Kölliker ["Über die Darwin’sche Schöpfungstheorie", Z. Wiss. Zool. 14 (1864): 174–86].
Author: | Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 Aug 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 38 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4586 |
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 |
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 |