To Ernst Haeckel 26 June [1881]
[Glenridding House, Patterdale.]
June 26th.—
My mind was so full of the Ceylon affair that I quite forgot to thank you about the microscope, which my son finds excellent.—1 When next you see Prof. Abbe, I hope that you will give him my best thanks for his great kindness.—2
C. Darwin
Footnotes
See letter from Ernst Haeckel, 21 June 1881 and n. 8; Francis Darwin had recently received a Zeiss microscope. For Haeckel’s planned research trip to Ceylon (Sri Lanka), see the letter to Ernst Haeckel, 25 June 1881.
Ernst Abbe had personally supervised the fine optical work on Francis’s microscope (letter from Ernst Haeckel, 21 June 1881).
Summary
Thanks EH and Ernst Abbe in connection with microscope for his son [Francis].
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-13219
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel
- Sent from
- Patterdale
- Postmark
- JU 27 81
- Source of text
- American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
- Physical description
- ApcS
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Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 13219,” accessed on
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