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AFTER a prolonged illness Prof. Haeckel died at his house in Jena on August 8 at the age of eighty-five. .His signature of the infamous manifesto issued by ninety-three German professors in 1914, his recent bitterness towards Britain, and his acquiescence in Germany's crimes need not blind us to what is lasting in the work he did, to features of greatness in his character, and to the irresistible charm of his personality. He was a champion of evolutionism from the publication of the “Origin of Species” onwards, in days when the doctrine was unpopular and upholding it meant obloquy; he broke new zoological ground in many directions, and he was the teacher of many illustrious naturalists.
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Ernst Haeckel . Nature 103, 487–488 (1919). https://doi.org/10.1038/103487a0
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