From Adolph Reuter 6 April 1873
Pfaueninsel near | Potsdam
the 6.4.73.
Dear Sir!
Because You have been always so very kind and indulgent with me, so I hope it will not be impolite from me, when I take me the liberty to send again a letter and also the photographie of a curiosity to You.1
Indeed a very interesting animal which has been shooted the last year by the Prince Fred. Charles2 in the forest of Glinicke about 1 hour far from Potsdam.
The roebuck must have been diseased, then the Genitalia has been very small and perhaps the cause of that, the horns were surrounded with an excrescense till to the eyes.—3
The head of the roebuck has been stuffed and is now at Glinicke, the castle used for the purposes of the chasse of the Prince Fred. Charles4
I have yet collected a great number of interesting examples of domestication etc. which I send you with the next letter, when it will not be molesting for You?—
With my best wishes for Your health I remain my dearest Sir | Your | most obedient servant. | A. Reuter.
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Footnotes
Bibliography
ADB: Allgemeine deutsche Biographie. Under the auspices of the Historical Commission of the Royal Academy of Sciences. 56 vols. Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot. 1875–1912.
Rörig, Adolf. 1907. Gestaltende Correlationen zwischen abnormer Körperkonstitution der Cerviden und Geweihbildung derselben. Archiv für Entwicklungsmechanik 23: 1–150.
Summary
Sends photograph of a diseased roebuck shot by Prince Frederick Charles of Prussia.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-8844
- From
- Adolf Reuter
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- Pfauen Insel, near Potsdam
- Source of text
- DAR 176: 128
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 8844,” accessed on 28 March 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-8844.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 21