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 |