Uschmann, Georg, ed. — Ernst Haeckel. Biographie in Briefen.

Leipzig: Uriana-Verlag, 1983 (1. Aufl.); 328pp., index, glossary, 50 bl-wh and coloured illustrations, 8vo, cloth w. original dustwrapper. V. good copy. ¶ l Haeckel (1834-1919) was the very influential translator of Darwin's work into German and an atheistic interpretor of evolutionary theory (for which he was considered to be an important philospher in the German Democratic Republic), but also a gifted illustrator and aquarellist. In this book Haeckel's letters illustrate all phases of his life, including the various voyages he made to the tropics. Text in German.