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quickly decided on. It dealt, of course, with 

 his new field : the limit and the system of the 

 animal group to which the radiolaria belonged, 

 the rhizopods. He was immediately appointed 

 private teacher at Jena, and found himself in 

 the lovely valley of the Saale, beneath the moun- 

 tain about whose summit the red rays lingered. 

 He had been drawn from Berlin to Messina to 

 find a home — a home for ever — in the increasing 

 stress. 



In the following year, 1862, the official position 

 of Extraordinary Professor of Zoology was created, 

 and this brought him close, even externally, to 

 Gegenbaur. Everything was, it is true, in a 

 very primitive condition at first. In August he 

 married Anna Sethe — a sunny dream of fresh 

 young happiness. In the same year he published 

 his Monograph on the Badiolaria^ a huge folio 

 volume with thirty-five remarkably good copper- 

 plates, such as our more rational but slighter 

 technical methods no longer dare produce. Wa- 

 genschieber, of Berlin, the last of the fine scien- 

 tific copper etchers, had been in constant personal 

 touch with Haeckel, and reproduced his original 

 drawings in masterly style. With this work 

 Haeckel was fully established in his position as 

 a professional zoologist. It is still one of the 

 finest monographs that was issued in the nine- 

 teenth century ; from the literary point of view, 

 also, it was one of the purest and most lucid 

 works of its kind, full of great and earnest 

 thoughts, and without any bitterness — a work, 



