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To Adolf Reuter   15 January [1870]

Summary

Thanks AR for specimens of fruit.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Adolf Reuter
Date:  15 Jan [1870]
Classmark:  Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 220–221)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7079

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  • … between this letter and the letter from Adolf Reuter, 11 January 1870 . See letter from …

To Adolf Reuter   2 June 1869

Summary

Thanks AR for his offer to send his observation notes, but since CD will not pursue the subject of variation under domestication, and his German is poor, he urges him to publish them in some periodical.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Adolf Reuter
Date:  2 June 1869
Classmark:  Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 222–223)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-6772

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  • … See letter from Adolf Reuter, 30 May 1869 . CD refers to his work on Variation. Reuter had …

To Adolf Reuter   27 September 1869

Summary

Thanks AR for specimens and notes. Will keep them for future edition [of Variation]. Particularly struck by difference in hardiness of varieties of Syringa persica.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Adolf Reuter
Date:  27 Sept 1869
Classmark:  Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 224–225)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-6912

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  • … See letter from Adolf Reuter, 23 September 1869 . Reuter’s experiments on grafting …

From Adolf Reuter   11 January 1870

Summary

Sends monstrous oranges,

red grape leaves,

and a bean with blue fruits (a hybrid of Phaseolus vulgaris and a Dolichos species).

Author:  Adolf Reuter
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  11 Jan 1870
Classmark:  DAR 176: 127
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7075

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  • Reuter would have known. For more on the genus as it was recognised at this time, see Bentham and Hooker 1862 –83, 1: 540–1. Reuter refers to Eduard Lucas . See Correspondence vol.  17, letter to Adolf
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