To Wilhelm Rimpau 16 January 1877
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Jan. 16. 1877
Dear Sir,
I am very much obliged to you for having sent me your two essays which I shall read with the greatest interest.1 I am particularly surprised about Beta vulgaris; but you will find in my book that individuals of Reseda, although exposed to the same conditions, vary greatly in self-sterility: as do individuals of Eschscholtzia & Abutilon when they are exposed to changed conditions of life.2
With my best thanks | I remain, dear Sir | Yours faithfully | Charles Darwin.
Footnotes
Bibliography
Cross and self fertilisation: The effects of cross and self fertilisation in the vegetable kingdom. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1876.
Rimpau, Wilhelm, 1876. Das Aufschießen der Runkelrüben. Landwirthschaftliche Jahrbücher 5: 31–45.
Summary
Thanks for essays ["Das Aufschiessen der Runkelrüben", Landwirtsch. Jahrb. Berlin 5 (1876): 31–45; "Die Züchtung neuer Getreide Varietäten", ibid 6 (1877): 193–233]. Surprised about Beta vulgaris.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-10796
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Arnold Dietrich Wilhelm (Wilhelm) Rimpau
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- DAR 147: 304a
- Physical description
- C 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 10796,” accessed on 26 September 2022, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-10796.xml
