To Wilhelm Rimpau 16 January 1877
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.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Arnold Dietrich Wilhelm (Wilhelm) Rimpau |
Date: | 16 Jan 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 147: 304a |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10796 |
To A. W. Rimpau 13 December [1877]
Summary
Thanks for letter about beet. Will strike out statement about it in MS of new edition of Forms of flowers.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Arnold Dietrich Wilhelm (Wilhelm) Rimpau |
Date: | 13 Dec [1877] |
Classmark: | DAR 147: 304v |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11284 |
From A. W. Rimpau 10 December 1877
Summary
Sends his paper ["Die selbst-sterilität des Roggens", Landwirtsch. Jahrb. 6 (1877): 1073–6] on self-sterility in Secale cereale. AWR was wrong in claiming Beta vulgaris was perfectly self-sterile.
Reports results of crossing wheat varieties. In the first generation offspring are always uniform; some are intermediate, some resemble one parent. In the second generation, on the contrary, he got a diversity of parental and intermediate forms.
Author: | Arnold Dietrich Wilhelm (Wilhelm) Rimpau |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 Dec 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 159 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11273 |