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Haeckel

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Joseph McCabe translation

A

Adam’s Peak, Haeckel on, 244

Adaptations, embryonic, 228

Adaptation to environment, 119

Adickes, Professor, 304

Adriatic, visit to the, 257

Æsthetic element in Haeckel, 83

Affinities of animals, 233

Agassiz, 229

〃 , on creation, 128

Alexander, Karl, Grand Duke of Weimar, 254

Algeciras, Haeckel at, 252

Algiers, Haeckel arrested in, 259

Allmers, Hermann, 85

Alpine salamander, the, 221

America, the discovery of, 20

Amphioxus, the, 274

Amphoridea and Cystoidea, the, 291

Angelo, Michael, paintings of, 15

Anthropogenie, the, 279, 309

Anthropological critics, Haeckel’s, 283

Arabia, coral-fishing in, 257

Archeopteryx, the, 167, 223

Arctic hare, the, 119

Art and mathematics, 216

Art-forms in Nature, the, 26, 293, 311

Artificial selection, 117

Artistic gifts of Haeckel, 83-4

Asia Minor, travels in, 257

Aspects of Nature, 46

Association of Monists, 319

Athletic festival, Haeckel at the, 173

Atom, the, 212

Aus Insulinde,308

B

Bacilli, the, 206

Bacteria, the, 180

Basedow, 32

Belligemma, 258

Berlin, Haeckel’s criticism of, 30

〃 , lectures at, in 1905, 319

Berthelot, 318, 319

Björnsen, B., 318, 319

Bible, the, 126

Biogenetic law, the, 219

Bird, evolution of the, 223

Birth of Haeckel, 29

Birthday, celebration of Haeckel’s sixtieth, 297

Birthday, celebration of Haeckel’s seventieth, 314

Birthdays, real determination of, 102

330Bismarck, esteem of, for Haeckel, 298

Bleek, Professor, 37

Bose, Countess, liberality of, 255

Botany, Haeckel’s early love of, 36

Braun, Alexander, 52

Bressa prize, the, 300

Bronn, 128

Bruno, Giordano, 16

Butterfly, development of the, 227

C

Calcispongiæ, the, 272

〃 , embryology of the, 273

Calumniation of Haeckel, 266, 268

Cambridge, Haeckel at, 300

Canaries, voyage to the, 240

Catastrophic theory, the, 108

Catholicism in Germany, 301

〃 , lower features of, 134

Cell, discovery of the, 56, 65

〃 , nature of the, 178

Cell-soul, the, 161

Cell-souls and Soul-cells, 286

Cell-state, the, 57

〃 , man as a, 160

Cell-theory, the, and Darwinism, 178

Cenogenesis, 231

Ceylon, Haeckel’s life in, 33

〃 , visit to, 258

Challenger expedition, the, 287

Chromacea, the, 180

Chrysaora, 176

Classical studies, 35

Classification, Haeckel’s reform of, 233-4

Colombo, Haeckel at, 258

Columbus, 16, 20

Compromise, Virchow advocates, 163-171

Congresses, founding of scientific, 144

Consciousness, Virchow on, 163

Copernicus, 16

Corals of Arabia, the, 257

Craw-fish, study of the, 77

Creation, difficulties of, 98

Crystal, life of the, 203

Cuvier’s theory of creation, 107

Cyanea, 176

D

Dalmatia, visit to, 257

Darwin’s condemnation of Virchow, 311

Darwin, Haeckel’s intercourse with, 241

〃 in South America, 103

〃 on botany, 39

〃 , physiognomy of, 146

〃 , reasoning of, 117-20

〃 , theism of, 124

Darwinism accepted by Haeckel, 133

“Dead” matter, 203

Death of Haeckel’s wife, 184

Deep-sea Medusæ, the, 287

Degree, dissertation for the, 77

Dennert, Prof., 304

Descent of Man, the, 243

Design, abandonment of, 169

Desmonema Annasethe the, 186

Dissection, 55

Division of labour, essay on, 249

Doctorates held by Haeckel, 24

Dogmatism, alleged, of Haeckel, 23, 218, 303

Dohrn, Anton, 59

Down, Haeckel’s visit to, 241

Dubois, Eugen, 167, 309

Du Bois-Reymond, E., 135

E

Education, Haeckel on elementary, 34

Egypt, visit to, 257

331Ehrenberg, 78, 96

Elective Affinities, the, 45

Embryonic diagrams, Haeckel’s early, 268

Embryology, 57

〃 and evolution, 170

〃 in Haeckel’s works, 268, 280

Embryology of the Siphonophoræ, the, 248

Emotional character of Haeckel, 186-7

Engelmann, 173

Erica cinerea, search for the, 37

“Ernst Haeckel Street,” 43

Essay, Haeckel’s first, 71

Essays on the Theory of Evolution, 287

Evolution, internal law of, 130

〃 of species, 114

Evolution of Man, the, 279, 310

“Exact” scientists, 131, 132, 164

Extinct species, 107

Extinction of species, 112, 119

F

Family of Haeckel, the, 253

Filippo de Filippi, 76

Fish, nature of the, 219

FitzRoy, Captain, 103

Flora Hallensis, contribution to the, 37

Fol, 245

For Darwin, 230

Force and Matter, 201

Forms, science of, 190-2

Form-unities, 207

Free Science and Free Teaching, 285

Freedom of research, 75, 156

French rule in Prussia, 25

Freytag, Gustav, 21, 29

Friedenthal, 310

Frog, the, 219

〃 , evolution of the, 222

G

Galapagos Islands, Darwin in the, 116

Galileo, 16

Gandtner, 37

Gastræa, the, 276

Gastræa-theory, the, 278

Gastrula, the, 277

Gegenbaur, Karl, 62-4

Genealogical tree of organisms, 149, 152, 226

Generelle Morphologie, the, 188

Genius, 102

Geology, 108

〃 and evolution, 167

Geryonidæ, the, 177

Gill-slits in the human embryo, 269

Giltsch, Adolph, 289

Glyptodon, the, 113

Gneisenau, 29

God, Haeckel’s conception of, 133-5, 236

〃 , the new conception of, 19

Goethe, 17

〃 , evolution in works of, 238

〃 on morphology, 190-1

Goethe’s influence on Haeckel, 41-6

Gramzow, Otto, on Haeckel, 295

Greece, visit to, 257

Greeff, Richard, 244

Greek, Haeckel’s knowledge of, 36

Green Henry, 45

Gryptotherium, the, 113

Gude, Karl, 37

H

Haeckel abandons theology, 75, 133

〃 , æsthetic element in, 83, 185

〃 , ancestry of, 21

332Haeckel and Darwin, 127, 241

〃 〃 Gegenbaur, 62

〃 〃 Müller, 69

〃 〃 Virchow, 163, 284

〃 as a physician, 80

〃 〃 traveller, 256

〃 at Down, 241

〃 at Stettin, 146

〃 , birth of, 29

〃 , boyhood of, 31-3

〃 , early education of, 34-50

〃 embraces evolution, 137

〃 , family of, 253

〃 , first marriage of, 100

〃 goes to Jena, 100

〃 , honours awarded to, 10, 298, 300

〃 in Heligoland, 69

〃 in Italy, 82

〃 in the Canaries, 240

〃 , medical training of, 76

〃 , parents of, 28

〃 , personal charm of, 146

〃 , political views of, 301

〃 , recent popularity of, 295

〃 reconstructs zoology, 181

〃 , religion of, 230

〃 , second marriage of, 253

〃 , university training of, 54

Haeckel, Councillor Karl, 29, 32

〃 , Walter, 83

Haeckel’s Critics Answered, 307

Heine, 21

Heligoland, the first journey to, 69

Heliosphæra, the, 141

Heliozoa, the, 258

Heredity, a theory of, 284

Hertwig, Oscar, 257

Hertwig, R., 189

Histology, 56

History of Creation, the, 262

History, unity of, 44

Holy Land, travels in the, 259

Horton, Dr., on Haeckel, 312

Hüffer, Hermann, 21

Humboldt, 46, 144

〃 foundation, the, 31

Huschke, Agnes, 253

Huxley on the origin of man, 180

I

Illustrations, charges against Haeckel’s, 267-8

Imagination in science, 200

Independence, Haeckel’s early sense of, 31

Indische Reisebriefe, the, 261

Individuality, nature of, 207, 211

〃 , stages of, 209

Infusoria, the, 78

International Congress of Freethinkers, the, 316

Irene, 176

Ischia, journey to, 87

Italy, appreciation of Haeckel in, 299

〃 , Haeckel’s first visit to, 82

J

Java, ape-man of, 167, 308

〃 , voyage to, 260, 308

Jena, 42

〃 , Haeckel’s first visit to, 50

Jugend, Haeckel number of, 315

Jump, Haeckel’s record, 173

Jurist, Haeckel as a, 22

K

Keferstein, Professor, on Darwinism, 148

Keller, Gottfried, 45

Kepler, 16

Kölliker, Albert, 56

Königsberg, Congress at, 99

Kopf, Professor, bust of Haeckel by, 299

Kükenthal, 43

Kulturkampf, the, 284

333L

Lamprey, the, 181

Lancelet, the, 181

Lang, Professor A., on Haeckel, 300

Lange, F. A., 154

Language, evolution of, 150

Lanzarote, Haeckel at, 245

Last Link, the, 300

Last Words on Evolution, the, 320

Latin, Haeckel’s knowledge of, 36

〃Law of development,” 129

Law, training for the, 23

Lawyers in Haeckel’s family, 22

Lemur, the, 181

Leydig, Frantz, 56

Lichtenstein, Professor, 71

Life, earliest forms of, 151

〃 , origin of, 124

Linné, classification of, 105

Literary production of Haeckel, 299

Lizard, evolution of the, 222

Lizzia Elizabethæ, the, 185

Lloyd-Morgan, Professor, 307

Lodge, Sir Oliver, 307

Loofs, Professor, 305

Love of nature in Haeckel, 31

Lyell’s reform of geology, 109

M

Macrauchenia, the, 112

Mammoth, the, 106

Man, creation of, 126

〃 , evolution of, 180-1, 279

Man’s genealogical tree, 181

Marine animals, study of, 60

Marriage, Haeckel’s first, 100

〃 〃 second, 253

Mastodon, the, 112

Materialism and idealism, 83, 154

Mathematical types of form, 214

Matter, potentialities of, 204

Mechanical embryology, 249

Medical studies of Haeckel, 72

Medusæ, the, 174, 246

Megatherium, the, 106, 112

Merseburg, 30

Messina, 90

Metaphysics, Haeckel’s views on, 304

Method, analysis of scientific, 200

Meyer, Frau, 253

Microscope, beauty in the, 92

Miklucho-Maclay, 245

Miracles in modern Italy, 134

“Missing link,” the, 308

Mitrocoma Annæ, the, 185

Moleschott, 83, 154

Monera, the, 179

Monism, 73, 203, 217

Monism as a Connecting Link, the 292

Monograph on the Calcispongiæ, the, 272

Monograph on the Medusæ, the, 185

Monograph on the Monera, the, 182

Monograph on the Radiolaria, the, 100, 138

Monophyletic theory of life, the, 158

Morphology, the science of, 190

〃 , history of, 199

Mosaic story of creation, 105, 108

Mottoes, Haeckel’s, 321

Mouth, the primitive, 275

Müller, Fritz, 230

〃 , Johannes, 65-8

〃 〃 , death of, 80

Müller-net, the, 69

Munich, Haeckel and Virchow at, 157, 283

Murray, Sir John, 259

N

Naples, Haeckel at, 87

Natural law, relativity of, 232

〃 , philosophy, 48

334Natural selection, 119-120

Nature and God, 20

Naturalist’s Voyage round the World, 46

Nausicaa phæacum, the, 185

Nineteenth century, work of the, 18

Nomenclature, scientific, 185

Nucleus, the, 179

O

Oken, L., 144

〃 on embryonic development, 224

Ontogeny, 231

Optimism of early Darwinians, 166

Origin and Evolution of the Sense-organs, 286

Origin of Species, the, 122

Over-individuals, 247

Ovi di mare, 93

Ovum, the, 268, 273

〃 , discovery of the, 58

P

Paleontology, 149

Palingenesis, 231

Pampas, fossil remains in the, 112

Paris, Freethought Congress at, 319

Pathology, Virchow’s reform of, 57

Paulsen, Professor, 304

Peak of Teneriffe, Haeckel climbs the, 250

Pelagic sweepings, 70

Pemmatodiscus gastrulaceus, the, 277

Persephone-impulse, the, in Haeckel, 256

Philosophy and observation, 156

〃 and science, 202

Philosophy, Haeckel’s work in, 305

Phylogeny, 231

Physician, Haeckel as a, 80

〃 , qualities of the, 53

Pithecanthropus, the, 167, 308

Plankton, 70

Plankton-studies, 290

Plant or animal, priority of the, 205

Plastidules, 284

Political views of Haeckel, 301

Polyps, 175

Popular works, why written, 262

Potsdam, Haeckel’s birthplace, 30

Private teacher, Haeckel as, 100

Profession, choice of a, 53

Professor of Zoology, Haeckel appointed, 100

Progressive evolution, 168

Promorphology, 215

Protestant religion, character of the, 134

Protists, the, 206

Protistology, 206

Puerto del Arrecise, 250

Pupa, the, 227

R

Rabl, Professor, 311

Radiolaria, the, 93, 289

〃 , shells of the, 95

〃 , system of the, 140

Rapallo, Haeckel at, 313

Realism of Haeckel, 304

Report on the Deep-sea Keratosa, the, 290

Report on the Radiolaria, the, 289

Riddle of the Universe, the, 22, 291, 301-7

Ritter, Paul von, donation of, 255, 299

Riviera, marine study on the, 76

Rocks, formation of the, 109

Roederer, 25

Romance nations, religion of the, 134

335Rome, Freethought Congress at, 316

Roux, Professor, 249

Russia, travels in, 259

S

Scandinavia, visit to, 257

Schiller, 42, 43

Schleiden, M. J., 47

Schleiermacher, 27-8

Schmidt, Dr., 307

School-days at Merseburg, 34

Schopenhauer on Darwinism, 132

Schwann, Theodor, 65

Scientific method, variations of, 48

Scilla bifolia, search for the, 51

Scotland, visit to, 257, 259

Sea-urchin, fertilisation of the, 257

Seebeck refuses Haeckel’s resignation, 254

Semon, 43

Sergi, Professor, 319

Sethe, Anna, 81, 100

〃 , Bertha, 26

〃 , Christian, 21, 22

〃 , Christoph, 21, 25

Siphonophores, the, 246

Social Democrats, the, 285, 301

Soul, unity of the, 161

Spain, Haeckel’s visit to, 252

Specialism in science, 48

Species, early difficulties about, 37-8

〃 idea of fixity of, 105

Sponge, nature of a, 271

Sponges, Haeckel’s study of the, 270

Spontaneous generation, Haeckel’s early opposition to, 77

Spontaneous generation, possibility of, 136

Stereometric structures, 215

Stephen, Sir Leslie, 307

Stettin, Congress of, 145

Stocks, animal, 211

Strauss, 83

Struggle for life, the, 119

Studies of the Gastræa-theory, the, 277

Sumatra, Haeckel in, 260

Superstition in Italy, 315

System of the Medusæ, the, 287

System of the Siphonophoræ, the, 249

Systematic Phylogeny, the, 291

T

Tadpole, the, 220

Teeth in young parrots, 223

Teneriffe, 240

Terminology created by Haeckel, 36

Theological critics of Haeckel, 298, 305

Theology, Haeckel’s rejection of, 75-6

Tiara, 176

Tierra del Fuego, 103

Tissues of the Craw-fish, the, 77

Tjibodas, 260

Training, early, of Haeckel, 32

Transformism, 111

Translations of Haeckel’s works, 294

“Travel Pictures,” 84

Travels of Haeckel, 256

Tree-frog, the, 119

U

Unicellular animals, 94, 98

Unity of nature, the, 235

Unnucleated organisms, 180

Utrecht Society of Art and Science, 248

V

Venus of Milo, the, 191

Vienna, medical studies at, 80

336Villefranche, fishing at, 76

Virchow, Rudolf, 56, 72

〃 at Stettin, 153-171

〃 Haeckel’s conflict with, 74

〃 on the evolution of man, 311

Visit to Ceylon, the, 259

Vital force, the, 135

Vogt, 83, 154

Volger, Otto, 167

W

Wallace, A. R., and Darwin, 123

Weimar, Grand Duke of, 254

Wonders of Life, the, 292, 313

Works, number of Haeckel’s, 299

Worm, evolution of the, 276

Würtzburg, Haeckel at, 54

〃 , invitation to the University of, 253

Z

Zipangu, 20

Zoological Institute, the, 42

〃 philosophy, 194

〃 Station at Naples, 59

Zoology, reconstruction of, by Haeckel, 24

〃 , the old and the new, 60

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Transcriber’s Notes: Missing or obscured punctuation was silently corrected. Typographical errors were silently corrected. Inconsistent spelling and hyphenation were made consistent only when a predominant form was found in this book.

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