BOLSCHE, WILHELM. — Haeckel. His Life and Work. (With Thirteen Illustrations).

London: T.Fisher Unwin, 1906. 1st edition. With Introduction and Supplementart Chapter by the Translator, Joseph McCabe. Pp.336, colour portrait frontispiece + 12 black & white plates, occasional spotting. Red cloth, gilt title to spine, wear to top and tail of spine. Good.** "Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel (1834 – 1919) was a German biologist, naturalist, philosopher, physician, professor, marine biologist, and artist who discovered, described and named thousands of new species, mapped a genealogical tree relating all life forms, and coined many terms in biology, including anthropogeny, ecology, phylum, phylogeny, stem cell, and Protista. Haeckel promoted and popularised Charles Darwin's work in Germany and developed the influential but no longer widely held recapitulation theory ("ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny") claiming that an individual organism's biological development, or ontogeny, parallels and summarises its species' evolutionary development, or phylogeny."(wiki).