From:
Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Oct 1872
Source of text:
DAR 166: 58
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].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project