IV 
THE GENEALOGY OF ANIMALS! 
[1869] 
CONSIDERING that Germany now takes the lead of 
the world in scientific investigation, and particu- 
larly in biology, Mr. Darwin must be well pleased 
at the rapid spread of his views among some of 
the ablest and most laborious of German 
naturalists. 
Among these, Professor Haeckel, of Jena, is the 
Corypheus. I know of no more solid and import- 
ant contributions to biology in the past seven 
years than Haeckel’s work on the “ Radiolaria,” 
and the researches of his distinguished colleague 
Gegenbaur, in vertebrate anatomy; while in 
_ Haeckel’s “ Generelle Morphologie” there is all 
the force, suggestiveness, and, what I may term 
1 The Natural History of Creation. By Dr. Ernst Haeckel. 
[Natirliche Schépfungs-Geschichte.—Von Dy. Ernst Haeckel, 
Professor an der Universitiit Jena.] Berlin, 1868. 
