From M. T. Masters 24 January 1876
Summary
He is surveying the literature on the struggle for existence among pasture plants. Asks CD for the "many cases on record" of changed relations among plants under slightly changed conditions alluded to in the Origin. [See M. T. Masters, J. B. Lawes and J. M. Gilbert "Agricultural, botanical, and chemical results of experiments on the mixed herbage of permanent meadow, conducted for more than twenty years in succession on the same land (pt 2, The botanical results)", Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. 173 (1883): 1181–413.]
Author: | Maxwell Tylden Masters |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 24 Jan 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 86 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10366 |
From M. T. Masters 26 January 1876
Summary
In response to CD’s query, answers that he has frequently heard discussions at the Horticultural Society of a saccharine secretion from leaves of the lime and has no doubt it really does occur. [See Cross and self-fertilisation, p. 402.]
Author: | Maxwell Tylden Masters |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 26 Jan 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 76: B185 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10367 |
From M. T. Masters [13 December 1877]
Author: | Maxwell Tylden Masters |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [13 Dec 1877] |
Classmark: | DAR 68: 6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11279 |
From M. T. Masters 25 November 1880
Summary
Praise for Movement in plants.
He thinks G. A. Chatin, whom CD quotes [p. 389], is mistaken about movement of conifer leaves. Cites his own paper ["Relations between morphology and physiology in the leaves of certain conifers", J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 17 (1880): 547–52].
Author: | Maxwell Tylden Masters |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 25 Nov 1880 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 87 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12858 |
From M. T. Masters 17 March 1862
Summary
He has only an uncertain memory of the placement of stamens in the [monstrous?] primrose CD asked about.
Author: | Maxwell Tylden Masters |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 17 Mar 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 171.1: 67 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3475 |
From M. T. Masters [c. 15 May 1862]
Author: | Maxwell Tylden Masters |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [c. 15 May 1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 171.1: 66 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3551 |
From M. T. Masters 12 July 1862
Author: | Maxwell Tylden Masters |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 July 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 171.1: 68 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3655 |
From M. T. Masters 14 April 1863
Summary
Thanks CD for specimens which show that an abnormality in one genus is normal in another, which bears on CD’s views on descent.
Author: | Maxwell Tylden Masters |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 14 Apr 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 69 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4092 |
From Maxwell Tylden Masters 19 September 1864
Author: | Maxwell Tylden Masters |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 19 Sept 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 70 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4617 |
From Maxwell Tylden Masters 7 February 1865
Summary
MTM heard part of the abstract of CD’s paper on climbing plants, read at the Linnean Society on 2 Feb. Offers CD his opinion and information on the subject, which he has studied for many years.
Author: | Maxwell Tylden Masters |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 Feb 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 71 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4766 |
From M. T. Masters 12 July 1865
Summary
Will forward Robert Caspary’s paper to CD when it is published ["Sur les hybrides obtenus par la greffe", Bull. Congr. Int. Bot. & Hortic. Amsterdam (1865): 65–80].
MTM is to become editor of Gardeners’ Chronicle.
Author: | Maxwell Tylden Masters |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 July 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 72 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4871 |
From M. T. Masters September 1865
Summary
He will soon take over editorship of Gardeners’ Chronicle and hopes for CD’s continued support.
Author: | Maxwell Tylden Masters |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | Sept 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 73 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4886 |
From M. T. Masters [before 13 December 1877]
Summary
Thanks CD for his specimen of "self-containedness". Some of the bromeliads will flower under similar treatment, but MTM does not know whether they seed.
Author: | Maxwell Tylden Masters |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 13 Dec 1877] |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 65 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4888 |
From Maxwell Tylden Masters March 1866
Summary
As Honorary Secretary of the Botanical Congress he asks that CD’s name be listed as a member of its committee.
Author: | Maxwell Tylden Masters |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | Mar 1866 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 74 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5022 |
From M. T. Masters 20 April 1866
Summary
Expects R. Caspary’s paper to be published soon.
Reports the conclusions of another of RC’s papers on the movement of tree branches due to cold [Bull. Congr. Int. Bot. & Hortic. Lond. (1866): 98–117]
and discusses a paper by H. Lecoq on the mountain flora of the Auvergne [Proc. Bot. Congr. (1866): 158–65]. He disagrees with CD on glaciation and its effect on geographical distribution.
Author: | Maxwell Tylden Masters |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20 Apr 1866 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 75 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5062 |
From Maxwell Tylden Masters 28 March 1867
Summary
Forwards some plant specimens to CD for his comments.
Author: | Maxwell Tylden Masters |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 28 Mar 1867 |
Classmark: | DAR 96: 34–5, Gardeners’ Chronicle, 6 April 1867, p. 350. |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5467 |
From M. T. Masters 4 April 1868
Summary
MTM did not write Gardeners’ Chronicle review of Variation [(1868): 184].
Encloses letters supporting a project [Botanical Congress?] to promote horticulture, and hopes CD will reconsider giving his support.
Author: | Maxwell Tylden Masters |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 4 Apr 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 76 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6092 |
From M. T. Masters 7 September 1868
Author: | Maxwell Tylden Masters |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 Sept 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 77 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6354 |
From M. T. Masters 2 November 1868
Summary
After examining a basket of piebald potatoes he does believe them to be a graft-hybrid as Friedrich Hildebrand might suggest.
Author: | Maxwell Tylden Masters |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 Nov 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 78 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6444 |
From Maxwell Tylden Masters 21 January 1869
Summary
Sends CD another piebald potato and a spray of holly, from Mr Fish, discussed in Gardeners’ Chronicle of 22 Jan [1869, p. 83].
Author: | Maxwell Tylden Masters |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 21 Jan 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 79 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6564 |