To Ernst Haeckel 3 March 1871
Summary
Comments on Descent.
EH’s refusal of position at Vienna.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel |
Date: | 3 Mar 1871 |
Classmark: | Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A-Abt. 1-52/25 [9878] |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7534 |
From Ernst Haeckel 21 December 1871
Summary
Comments on Die Kalkschwämme [1872].
A Franciscan prior, Padre Buona-Grazia, agrees with human descent.
His trip to Dalmatia.
German reception of Descent.
Mentions current work.
Author: | Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 21 Dec 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 56 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8114 |
To Ernst Haeckel 27 December 1871
Summary
Refers to priest who believes in "our ape-like progenitors".
EH’s work on sponges.
Pangenesis.
Describes new edition of Origin [6th]
and his work on plant crossing.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel |
Date: | 27 Dec 1871 |
Classmark: | Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A Abt. 1–52/26) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8121 |
From Ernst Haeckel 1 March 1872
Summary
Thanks CD for Origin, 6th ed.
Has declined chair at Strasbourg.
Describes research on calcareous sponges.
Criticises Pangenesis.
Author: | Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 Mar 1872 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 57 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8232 |
To Ernst Haeckel 2 September 1872
Summary
Comments on EH’s criticism of authors in third edition of Natürliche Schöpfungsgeschichte [1872].
Discusses book by H. C. Bastian [The beginnings of life (1872)].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel |
Date: | 2 Sept 1872 |
Classmark: | Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A-Abt. 1:1-52/27) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8506 |
From Ernst Haeckel 12 October 1872
Summary
Much experiment and observation needed before spontaneous generation will be empirically advanced, but philosophically the matter is clear.
Thinks Ludwig Rütimeyer has attacked EH to satisfy pious opinion in Basel.
Will soon be finished with his monograph Die Kalkschwämme [1872].
Author: | Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 Oct 1872 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 58 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8556 |
From Ernst Haeckel 10 December 1872
Summary
Thanks CD for Expression.
Describes work on Die Kalkschwämme and its principal conclusions.
The application of biogenetic law.
Notes variability among calcareous sponges.
Gastrula-like "Gastraea" as ancestor of multicellular animals.
Posits homology between Hydra, Olynthus of calcareous sponges, and initial germ layers of higher animals.
Comments on Lubbock’s Prehistoric times [1865]
and on David Strauss’s Der alte und der neue Glaube [1872].
Author: | Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 Dec 1872 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 34, 59 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8669 |
To Ernst Haeckel 20 December 1872
Summary
Comments on EH’s forthcoming [Die Kalkschwämme (1872)].
Thinks EH is working much too hard.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel |
Date: | 20 Dec 1872 |
Classmark: | Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A-Abt. 1:1-52/28) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8688 |
To Ernst Haeckel 20 January 1873
Summary
On EH’s Die Kalkschwämme [1872].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel |
Date: | 20 Jan 1873 |
Classmark: | Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A-Abt. 1: 52/29) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8743 |
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 |
To Ernst Haeckel 25 September 1873
Summary
Comments on EH’s Natürliche Schöpfungsgeschichte [4th ed.].
Has written paper on rudimentary structures ["Complemental males of certain cirripedes", (1873) Collected papers 2: 177–82].
Edward Morse thinks brachiopods should be classed with annelids ["The systematic position of the Brachiopoda", Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist. 15 (1873): 315–73].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel |
Date: | 25 Sept 1873 |
Classmark: | Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A-Abt. 1: 1-52/30 [9883]) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9068 |
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 |
To Ernst Haeckel 20 September 1874
Summary
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 |
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 |
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 |
To Ernst Haeckel 11 January [1875]
Summary
Thanks for F. v. Hellwald [Culturgeschichte (1875)].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel |
Date: | 11 Jan [1875] |
Classmark: | Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A-Abt. 1:1-52/ 33 [9886]) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9811 |
From Emma Darwin to Ernst Haeckel 22 September [1876]
Summary
Arranges for EH’s visit to Down.
Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Addressee: | Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel |
Date: | 22 Sept [1876] |
Classmark: | Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A-Abt. 1:1-52/ 41 [9894]) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10614 |
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