300 HAECKEL 



The story so vividly unfolded by Professor 

 Bolsche has explained how the estrangement arose 

 between Haeckel and so many of his scientific 

 colleagues in Germany. It is not a little gratifying 

 to find the names of some of his critics amongst 

 the subscribers to his festival. The personality, 

 the aim, the self-sacrifice of the man, no less than 

 his distinguished special contributions to science, 

 had won a superb recognition. 



In the years 1894-6 Haeckel published the 

 Systematic Pliylogeny, ^' We may differ," says 

 Professor Arnold Lang of it, ''as to the value of 

 special or even fundamental opinions in it, but 

 we must stand before this work in astonishment 

 and admiration: astonishment at the vast range 

 of his knowledge — it would seem that one head 

 could contain no more : admiration of the intellec- 

 tual labour with which the various phenomena are 

 connected and the gigantic mass of material is 

 reduced to order." The Eoyal Academy of Science 

 at Turin judged the work the best that had been 

 published in the last four years of the nineteenth 

 century, and awarded its author the Bressa prize, 

 a sum of 10,000 lire. 



In August, 1898, he made a further visit to 

 England. The International Congress of Zoology 

 met at Cambridge, and Haeckel was invited to 

 deliver an address. He chose his ever-present 

 theme — the evolution of man. The long lecture, 

 or essay, has been translated by Dr. Gradow under 

 the title. The Last Link The title is somewhat 

 misleading, as only a page or two are devoted to 



