John Murray an Ernst Haeckel, Edinburgh, 16. Januar 1878

12 Teviot Row

Edinburgh

16 January 1878.

My dear Haeckel

I wish you and Mrs Haeckel, Lizzie, Emma and Walter, all a jolly good new year. I am sure you must all think me a naughty fellow for not having written to thank you for the photographs, which I was so glad to receive – || and for not answering your kind letters sooner. I have been very busy. We had to move all our large collections lately, and I have had much work packing up and sending away.

I hope I may soon be able to visit Germany again, and it will be a great pleasure to spend another “tum diddle dum” time with you and your family.

I am now getting || some fine plates done of the manganese nodules, sharks teeth, cosmic dust and other things from the bottom. I find the description of the deposits will take me much longer than I thought. If you are prepared to go on with the Radiolaria before I get the deposits finished, I think I will hand you over all the Challengeridae || for description at the same time – I will have, I fear, plenty of work without them. I am glad the Meduse have turned out so interesting.

We propose to send you all the Actiniae – there are not many of them but they may be interesting. Sir Wyville seems inclined to send the Hexactinellidae to Marshall, but has not yet made || up his mind. I have sent you two lectures, and I hope you will not require to „pitch into” me for anything I have said. What I have said about the mistake (?) of Bathybius, is in substance what Huxley said to me.

The order which you proposed to confer on me is capital!! and || has amused me very much. There is some talk of an Expedition (deep sea) to the Indian Ocean. – perhaps in a year or so I may be off to my „own true love ten thousand miles away.” The challenger work is getting on first rate. Will you tell Mrs || Preyer that I have been promised an autograph of Murchison and will send it along with others to her soon.

I'll send you a box next week. In the meantime, with kindest remembrances to Mrs Haeckel and love to the children

Yours ever truly

John Murray. ||

What do you think of the fish with the wonderful eye. I would have very much liked to describe it fully, but I was required by the official arrangements to hand all connected with the fish to Günther. It is I think the best physiological thing in the whole Exhibition.

J. M.

Brief Metadaten

ID
41574
Gattung
Brief ohne Umschlag
Entstehungsort
Entstehungsland aktuell
Großbritannien
Entstehungsland zeitgenössisch
Großbritannien
Datierung
16.01.1878
Sprache
Englisch
Umfang Seiten
8
Umfang Blätter
4
Format
12,7 x 20,2 cm
Besitzende Institution
EHA Jena
Signatur
EHA Jena, A 41574
Zitiervorlage
Murray, John an Haeckel, Ernst; Edinburgh; 16.01.1878; https://haeckel-briefwechsel-projekt.uni-jena.de/de/document/b_41574