From Ernst Haeckel 9 November 1868

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Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 16.

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-6452,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 3 May 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-6452

Summary

Thanks CD for comments [on Entstehung des Menschengeschlechts].

Comments on Goethe and Kant as early evolutionists.

Describes birth of his son. Mentions child’s "atavisms".

Letter details

Record number: DCP-LETT-6452
From: Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel
To: Charles Robert Darwin
Date: 9 Nov 1868
Sent from: Jena
Source of text: DAR 166: 50
Physical description: 4pp (German) damaged

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Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 16.