From:
Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 June 1867
Source of text:
DAR 166: 45
Summary:
Is engaged to marry Agnes Huschke. Will make wedding trip to Switzerland and Italy in autumn; therefore cannot visit CD as hoped.
Discusses present research. Comments on Protoamoeba with respect to origin of life. Says it makes question of common or separate origin of phyla unimportant.
CD to receive honorary diploma from Imperial Zoological Botanical Society in Vienna.
Sends photograph of Viennese botanist, August Kanitz.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project