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From:
Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Jan 1866
Source of text:
DAR 166: 42
Summary:

Discusses exchange of photographs with German scientists.

Comments on attitudes of German scientists toward CD’s theory.

Names several scientists who exchanged photographs: Braun, Virchow, Leydig, and Dohrn.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Julia Margaret Cameron
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[28 January 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.162
Summary:

Sending some of her photographs. Has won medals for her efforts but would like JH's opinion so it can be quoted. Has been very busy with photographic work. Her son has gone to Ceylon and she now has no children in the house.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Friedrich Rolle
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Jan 1866
Source of text:
DAR 176: 202
Summary:

Last fascicles of FR’s book Der Mensch [1866] being sent.

Finds roots of human race in Negroes of Africa, Bushmen of South Africa and New Guinea, and short-headed peoples of south Asia.

Has translated natural selection as natürliche Auslese.

Ludwig Rütimeyer active in developing the descent of mammals.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project