From:
Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 June 1875
Source of text:
DAR 166: 64
Summary:
Comments on Fritz Schultze, Kant und Darwin [1875].
Describes recent activities.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Comments on Fritz Schultze, Kant und Darwin [1875].
Describes recent activities.
Thanks CD for Climbing plants and Insectivorous plants.
Discusses his research on phylogeny. Results described in "Die Gastrula und die Eifurchung der Tiere" [Jena. Z. Naturw. 9 (1875): 402–508].
Describes newly discovered coral.
Mentions receipt of EH’s History of creation [1876].
Describes his own work on cross- and self-fertilised flowers. Subject bears on the very principle of life.
Has read EH’s History of creation [trans. E. R. Lankester (1875)]. Was much struck with many "brilliant & original remarks". Is gratified by the way EH speaks of CD’s books.
Thanks for F. v. Hellwald [Culturgeschichte (1875)].