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From Otto Hahn   16 December 1880

Reutlingen | Würtemberg | Germany

16 December 1880

Dear Sir!

I thank you for your kind letter of 4. Novbr. and send you now my book “Die Meteoriten und ihre organismen”.1

Professor Dr. Quenstedt (Tübingen) declared, that he had never seen such structure in any mineral or rock: the same declared that the corals and minerals of my book are veritable corals and crinoids.2

It is now the beginning of life on earth—the beginning of the earth itself nearly sure and it is found a confirmation for your immortal discoveries.

I am dear Sir Your | faithfull | Dr Otto Hahn

1
CD’s letter has not been found. CD’s copy of Die Meteorite (Chondrite) und ihre Organismen (Meteorites (chondrites) and their organisms; Hahn 1880) is in the Darwin Library–Down. Hahn believed he had found various organisms in a stony (chondritic) meteorite.
2
No publication by Friedrich August Quenstedt with these comments has been identified.

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-12917,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-12917