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THE GENEALOGY OF ANIMALS 1 

 [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 

 Coryphceus. 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. 

 [Xatiirliche Schopfungs-Geschichte. Von Dr. Ernst Haeckel, 

 Professor an der Universitiit Jena.] Berlin, 1868. 



