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From Ernst Haeckel   21 June 1881

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Plans visit to Ceylon.

Describes rejection of his application for funds by Berlin Academy. Asks about possibility of obtaining support in England. Is writing to Lubbock and Huxley about it.

Hopes that new microscope from Zeiss is satisfactory. Ernst Abbe selected lenses.

Author:  Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  21 June 1881
Classmark:  DAR 166: 78
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13213

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  • … unterstützen. Vielleicht können Sie mit Sir John Lubbock darüber conferiren. Ihr Microscop …
  • … Perhaps you could discuss it with Sir John Lubbock. I hope your microscope from Zeiss has …
  • … today sent identical letters to Sir John Lubbock and to Prof. Huxley , with the request …
  • … sind. (!! ) Ich habe nun heute an Sir John Lubbock und an Prof. Huxley gleichlautende …

To T. H. Huxley   22 June 1881

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Has had letter from Rothenburg asking him to help obtain a grant for Haeckel’s expedition to Ceylon.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:  22 June 1881
Classmark:  Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 364)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13215

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  • … thanked Rottenburg for his support. John Lubbock was a fellow of the Royal Society of …

From J. D. Hooker   12 June 1881

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Has struggled for months with complexity of structure and distribution of palms for Genera plantarum.

Author:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  12 June 1881
Classmark:  DAR 104: 150–1
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13201

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  • … from 31 August to 7 September 1881; John Lubbock was the president in 1881 ( Report of the …