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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Arnold Dietrich Wilhelm (Wilhelm) Rimpau
Date:
16 Jan 1877
Source of text:
DAR 147: 304
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.

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From:
Arnold Dietrich Wilhelm (Wilhelm) Rimpau
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Dec 1877
Source of text:
DAR 176: 159
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.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Arnold Dietrich Wilhelm (Wilhelm) Rimpau
Date:
13 Dec [1877]
Source of text:
DAR 147: 304v
Summary:

Thanks for letter about beet. Will strike out statement about it in MS of new edition of Forms of flowers.

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