From: Wilhelm HI Bleek (18 April 1871)

From: Wilhelm HI Bleek (18 April 1871)

Correspondence

A letter in German from Wilhelm Bleek to his cousin Ernst Haeckel, sent from Cape Town on 18 April 1871. Bleek writes that he sent a parcel to Haeckel (via his London agent) containing sea animal specimens, two bottles of mussels and beach sand from Kalk Bay, and a hamper for specimen bottles once carried by their "young Bushman" (|a!kunta) on expeditions. He mentions Roland Trimen accompanied them and that Darwin's "The Descent of Man", which praises Haeckel, was sent to Trimen by Darwin himself. Bleek provides his London agent George Thompson's address and closes by asking after Haeckel's wife and child.

18 April 1871

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