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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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Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Richard Bowdler Sharpe
Date:
16 Jan 1877
Source of text:
Bates College, Edmund S. Muskie Archives and Special Collections Library
Summary:

Has received from the region of the River Uruguay in S. America "a wonderful nest" of a bird called "El boyero", said to perch on the back of cattle and horses.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project