To Ernst Haeckel 26 June [1881]

[Glenridding House, Patterdale.]

June 26^th.—

My mind was so full of the Ceylon affair that I quite forgot to thank you about the microscope, which my son finds excellent.—¹ When next you see Prof. Abbe, I hope that you will give him my best thanks for his great kindness.—²

C. Darwin

ApcS

Postmark: JU 27 81

See letter from Ernst Haeckel, 21 June 1881 and n. 8; Francis Darwin had recently received a Zeiss microscope. For Haeckel’s planned research trip to Ceylon (Sri Lanka), see the letter to Ernst Haeckel, 25 June 1881.

Ernst Abbe had personally supervised the fine optical work on Francis’s microscope (letter from Ernst Haeckel, 21 June 1881).

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-13219,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-13219