To M. T. Masters 13 April [1860]
Summary
Discusses crosses in sweetpeas and the difference between monstrosities and slight variations. Discusses peloric flowers.
Thanks for correction about furze.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Maxwell Tylden Masters |
| Date: | 13 Apr [1860] |
| Classmark: | DAR 146 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2759 |
To M. T. Masters 25 April [1860]
Summary
Glad to hear of MTM’s papers [? "On a peloria and semidouble flower of Ophrys aranifera, Huds.", J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 8 (1865): 207–11 and "Observations on the morphology and anatomy of the genus Restio, Linn.", J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 8 (1865): 211–55].
CD doubts the value, for origin of species, of parallels between peloria in "distinct groups".
Gärtner proved the stigma can select its own pollen from a mixture of foreign pollens. But much evidence shows varieties of same species are prepotent over a plant’s own pollen.
MTM’s father [William] believes that variation goes on for a long time once it has commenced.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Maxwell Tylden Masters |
| Date: | 25 Apr [1860] |
| Classmark: | Shrewsbury School Archives (SR/Darwin box 1) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4818 |
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- … 12 June 1847] , Correspondence vol. 8, letter to M. T. Masters, 13 April [1860] , and Origin , p. 145. CD would soon seek to establish whether peloria in flowers resulted in changes in fertility (see, for example, Correspondence vol. 9, letters to Journal of Horticulture , [before 18 June 1861] and [before 9 July 1861], and Correspondence vol. 10, …
To Charles Lyell 15 April [1860]
Summary
Has resolved not to correct Owen’s misrepresentations in his review of Origin.
Discusses at length the theological implications of natural selection.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 15 Apr [1860] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.208) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2761 |
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- … 10 April [1860]. CD was mistaken about the date: Saturday was 21 April 1860. Emma Darwin’s diary records that CD went to London on this date. Benjamin Collins Brodie, president of the Royal Society, held a soirée in the society’s rooms at Burlington House on 21 April ( Athenæum , 28 April 1860, p. 584). This is possibly a repetition of an expression used in conversation with Lyell during his recent visit to Down, 9 to 12 …
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