LETTER FROM PROFESSOR HAECKEL.
. '." SATS HIS .LIFE'S WORK IS ''' ' , ( ~ '..-.' -.■•'- .;F!NDED.'>; ~■■.' ,'■ (By Telegraph.—Special Correspondent.). ', Auckland, January 22. A long and interesting letter from Professor Ernest Hneckol, the world-famous veteran biologist of Jena,. and uuthor of the "Riddle of the Universe," "The; Evolution of Man," and numerous'well-known-scientifio works, has. just- been received by Mr. G. A. Rawson, of Auckland. -, s Mr. -Rawson has been in correspondence with Professor Haeckel'for the past six years, i'" % - ■ ■ - v ..--.; ■'■ The great biologist ends- his letter in rather a pathetic vein. In 1911 he sustained 'a serious fracturo of the hip through a fall from' a chair in his library: This Has ,nover ; healed properly, and, referring to it, he says that it has caused a severe lameness.
"I' cannot," ho continues, "walk nor voyage, nor ■ do. any more' earnest scien-tific-.work. my publications aro finished;, and 'I- am preparing.; for the last voyage to the Buddhistio': Nirvana. My next birthday (February IC, 1913), the .79th, will probably be my last 1 So that now, nt the:cnd of my life's Work, I may content'myself with.the assuranco that. I have, a-little advanced the slow iprogress'of ,th«■'world's''intellectual life."
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1655, 23 January 1913, Page 4
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188LETTER FROM PROFESSOR HAECKEL. Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1655, 23 January 1913, Page 4
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