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To Ernst Haeckel   20 September 1874

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Thanks for 5th edition of his book [Natürliche] Schöpfungsgeschichte.

CD continues with his experiments on the digestive power of plants, which is much like that of mammals.

Is also preparing a revised edition of Descent.

Would welcome hearing more of his ideas about Pangenesis.

Postscript about Anthropogenie, which has just arrived. EH’s astonishing productivity.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel
Date:  20 Sept 1874
Classmark:  Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A-Abt. 1: 1–52/31)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9647A

To Ernst Haeckel   26 December 1874

Summary

Comments on review of EH’s Anthropogenie [1874].

Mentions recent work of Huxley and other scientists.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel
Date:  26 Dec 1874
Classmark:  Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A–Abt. 1: 1–52/32)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9781

From Ernst Haeckel   26 October 1874

Summary

Thanks CD for Descent, 2d ed.

Comments on German edition of CD’s collected works.

Sales of his Anthropogenie [1874] in various countries.

Anticlericalism and progress of Darwinism in Germany.

Author:  Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  26 Oct 1874
Classmark:  DAR 166: 62
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9698

From Ernst Haeckel   20 December 1874

Summary

Discusses his Anthropogenie [1874]. Remarks on the tables.

Has CD received Friedrich von Hellwald’s Culturgeschichte [1875]?

Plans research trip to the Mediterranean.

Author:  Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  20 Dec 1874
Classmark:  DAR 166: 63
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9767
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