HAECKEL: HIS LIFE, WORK, AND COMPANIONS _ 85 
worldly task was done, it had been so faithfully done that 
no spot was deemed by his countrymen a fitting resting 
place for his ashes, but the venerable Abbey, where, near 
to her great heart, England treasures the memory of her 
noblest and dearest sons. By Hooker, Huxley, Earl 
Derby, the Dukes of Argyle of Devonshire, and by 
others who also loved him, Charles Robert Darwin was 
borne to his grave in Westminster Abbey, a grave which 
fittingly is but a few feet from that of Newton, and is 
marked only by the simple inscription of his name and 
dates of birth and death. His life is an additional 
instance that :— 
‘« Rvery truth that yet 
In brightness rose and sorrow set, 
That time to ripening glory nurs’t, 
Was called an idle dream at first.”’ 
A recent authoritative historian has recorded in the 
Cambridge Modern History that Darwin first made effective 
the idea of evolution which has been applied not only to 
natural history but ‘‘ to religion, to philosophy, to history, 
to criticism ; and will likely influence the treatment of such 
subjects in the future even more than in the past.” 
Many problems connected with Darwinism arose in 
Haeckel’s mind; though special zoological work claimed 
much of his attention. In early life the meduse were his 
favourite study. In looking back to the days spent with 
Mueller on the shores of the Mediterranean in 1854, he 
says: ‘‘ Never shall I forget the delight with which I first 
gazed on the Medusz and strove to sketch their beauty of 
form and colour.’’ His enthusiasm is not surprising. In 
appearance these little creatures are like bubbles in the 
water. Agassiz, who made them a special study, and 
wrote a memoir concerning them in his ‘‘ Contributions to 
Natural History,’ mentions that a friend of his asked if 
they are ‘‘ organized water ;’’ and the Professor thought it 
was ail apropos question, admirably descriptive. In shel- 
tered bays of the Atlantic, Agassiz found them in such 
