From Ernst Haeckel 23 February 1873
Summary
Thanks CD for comments on Die Kalkschwämme.
Plans trip to Greece, Asia Minor, and Egypt.
Discusses work of a Polish translator, Ludwik Masłowski.
Author: | Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 23 Feb 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 60 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8783 |
From Ernst Haeckel 8 October 1873
Summary
On CD’s paper ["Complemental males of certain cirripedes", Collected papers 2: 177–82].
Comments on paper by W. H. Dallinger and J. J. Drysdale ["Life history of a Cercomonad", Mon. Microsc. J. 10 (1873): 53–8].
Discusses origin of life, the Gastraea theory and concept that primary germ layers are homologous in all animals. Notes similar views of E. Ray Lankester ["On the primitive cell-layers of the embryo", Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 4th ser. 11 (1873): 321–38].
Reception of Darwinism in Germany.
Author: | Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 Oct 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 61 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9091 |
Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
Darwin, C. R. | |
Haeckel, Ernst | (2) |