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To Ernst Haeckel   21 January 1880

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

Jan 21st 1880

My dear Häckel

I have just received your grand present & thank you heartily. The book is magnificent.— I have just looked over all the Plates & they are wonderful. An artist gone mad could never have imagined such diversified and & curious structures.1

I congratulate you on the completion of so gigantic a work. You are a wonderful man to do so much.

Ever my dear Häckel | Yours very sincerely | Charles Darwin

1
Haeckel’s Das System der Medusen (the first volume of Haeckel 1879–81) was published in 1879; it included an atlas with coloured plates based on Haeckel’s illustrations. CD’s copy is in the Darwin Library–Down.

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-12437,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-12437