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To Ernst Haeckel   31 December 1876

Down, | Beckenham, Kent. | Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R.

Dec 31. 1876

My dear Häckel,

It is very kind of you to send me your new & improved edition of ‘Anthropogenie’ &c’ & I thank you heartily.1 I sent you lately a copy of my new book on cross-fertilisation, as I thought that you would like to possess the complete series of my works.2 But I knew that the present one would not interest you; & do not waste your time by acknowledging its receipt.

My dear Häckel | Yours very sincerely | Charles Darwin

LS

1
See letter from Ernst Haeckel, 30 December 1876 and n. 6. CD’s copy of the third edition of Anthropogenie: oder, Entwickelungsgeschichte des Menschen (Anthropogeny, or the developmental history of humans; Haeckel 1877) is in the Darwin Library–Down.
2
Haeckel’s name is on CD’s presentation list for Cross and self fertilisation (see Appendix III). Their letters crossed in the post; Haeckel acknowledged receiving the book in his letter of 30 December 1876.

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-10739,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-10739