To Ernst Haeckel 9 February 1881
Feb 9/81
My dear Haeckel,
Will you forgive me for troubling you on a subject in which you can help me? My son Francis, who works with me, wants to get a microscope from Zeiss.1 Will you therefore be so kind as to call on Zeiss and see that he really sends good lenses.
On the blank sheet opposite is a list of the ‘Stativ’, objectives and other things which my son wishes to have.2 He will send the money to Zeiss as soon as the latter will let him know that the microscope can be sent off. I received a few weeks ago two additional parts of your magnificent work on the Medusæ, for which I am very much obliged3
My dear Haeckel | Yours very sincerely | Charles Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
DBE: Deutsche biographische Enzyklopädie. Edited by Walter Killy et al. 12 vols. in 14. Munich: K. G. Saur. 1995–2000.
Haeckel, Ernst. 1879–81. Monographie der Medusen. Vol. 1: Das System der Medusen, part 1 System der Craspedoten, part 2 System der Acraspeden, Atlas; vol. 2: Die Tiefsee-Medusen der Challenger-Reise und der Organismus der Medusen, Atlas. Jena: Gustav Fischer.
Summary
Asks EH to call on Zeiss and to help arrange for microscope for Francis Darwin.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-13044
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Ernst-Haeckel-Haus
- Physical description
- LS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 13044,” accessed on
