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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel
Date:
7 Nov 1868
Source of text:
Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A-Abt. 1: 1–52/19)
Summary:

Thanks for [Natürliche] Schöpfungsgeschichte [1868]. "What an indomitable worker you are."

Agrees with EH’s Entstehung des Menschengeschlechts [1868].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Nov 1868
Source of text:
DAR 166: 50
Summary:

Thanks CD for comments [on Entstehung des Menschengeschlechts].

Comments on Goethe and Kant as early evolutionists.

Describes birth of his son. Mentions child’s "atavisms".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel
Date:
19 Nov 1868
Source of text:
Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A-Abt. 1: 1–52/20)
Summary:

Congratulates EH on birth of child.

Mentions projected translation of Generelle Morphologie.

Comments on EH’s last book [Natürliche Schöpfungsgeschichte]. Criticises EH’s statements on palaeontology.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Nov [1868]
Source of text:
DAR 166: 51
Summary:

Comments on experience of being a father.

Discusses possible English edition of Generelle Morphologie. Mentions necessary revisions.

Thanks CD for comment on Natürliche Schöpfungsgeschichte.

Discusses problem of assigning specific times to origin of classes.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project