JF Ptak Science Books Quick Post
I found this fine appreciation of one great naturalist (Ernst Haeckel, 1834-1919) on the career and work of a great biologist and educator (Thomas Henry Huxley, 1825-1895) in the February 1874 issue of Nature. [Ernst Haeckel, “Scientific Worthies II–Thomas Henry Huxley”, in Nature, February 5, 1874, pp 257-258, four very-compact columns.] Huxley was first-class and was perhaps the major defender and exponent of Charles Darwin (earning him the well-known nickname of “Darwin’s Bulldog”)–in a sense, Haeckel was a German equivalent of the Huxley/Darwin relationship, along with being an embryologist, physician, philosopher, biologist, and a great and demanding scientific illustrator. The article is a quick and interesting read, and is reproduced in full, below.
