To M. T. Masters [July 1875]
Summary
Has told publisher to send a copy of Insectivorous plants.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Maxwell Tylden Masters |
Date: | [July 1875] |
Classmark: | Sotheby’s (dealers) (12 December 2012) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10038F |
To M. T. Masters 10 July [1875]
Summary
Thanks MTM for his excellent review [of Insectivorous plants]
and for his trouble about the gooseberry.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Maxwell Tylden Masters |
Date: | 10 July [1875] |
Classmark: | Smithsonian Libraries and Archives (Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology MSS 405 A. Gift of the Burndy Library) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10057 |
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 |
To M. T. Masters 10 October [1876]
Summary
Discusses views of [Alexander James] Maule on potatoes.
Discusses graft-hybrids.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Maxwell Tylden Masters |
Date: | 10 Oct [1876] |
Classmark: | DAR 146: 347 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10637 |
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 |
To M. T. Masters [6–12 December 1877]
Summary
Reports on the flowering and growth of a branch of Echeveria stolonifera.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Maxwell Tylden Masters |
Date: | [6–12 Dec 1877] |
Classmark: | Gardeners’ Chronicle, 29 December 1877, p. 805 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11294 |
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 |
To M. T. Masters [after 25 November 1880]
Summary
Thanks for note. CD had had misgivings about Chatin but had assumed he was trustworthy [see Movement in plants, p. 389].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Maxwell Tylden Masters |
Date: | [after 25 Nov 1880] |
Classmark: | Smithsonian Libraries and Archives (Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology MSS 405 A. Gift of the Burndy Library) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12859 |
To Maxwell Tylden Masters 7 April [1860]
Summary
Much interested in MTM’s lecture at Royal Institution ["On the relation between the abnormal and normal formations in plants", Notes Proc. R. Inst. G. B. 3 (1860): 223–7].
Asks for information about crossing of varieties of peas. Describes his own experimental results: "the offspring out of the same pod, instead of being intermediate, was very nearly like the two pure parents; yet in one, there was a trace of the cross & the next generation showed still more plainly their mongrel origins".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Maxwell Tylden Masters |
Date: | 7 Apr [1860] |
Classmark: | The New York Public Library. Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations. The Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature. |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2749 |
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 Maxwell Tylden Masters 26 February [1862]
Summary
Obliged for MTM’s ["Vegetable morphology", Br. & Foreign Med.-Chir. Rev. 29 (1862): 202–18].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Maxwell Tylden Masters |
Date: | 26 Feb [1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 146: 339 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3459 |
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]
Summary
Thanks for Orchids.
Author: | Maxwell Tylden Masters |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [c. 15 May 1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 171.1: 66 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3551 |
To M. T. Masters 8 July [1862]
Summary
CD has been experimenting on the fertility of peloric flowers, with the forlorn hope of illustrating sterility of hybrids; seeks further plants or seeds.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Maxwell Tylden Masters |
Date: | 8 July [1862] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3645 |
From M. T. Masters 12 July 1862
Summary
Will be sending information on peloric plants from his father [William Masters] soon.
Author: | Maxwell Tylden Masters |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 July 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 171.1: 68 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3655 |
To M. T. Masters 24 July [1862]
Summary
CD grateful to have had the distinction of the two sorts of peloria pointed out to him.
His very sick son rallied; is out of danger, thanks to port wine.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Maxwell Tylden Masters |
Date: | 24 July [1862] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3663 |
To Maxwell Tylden Masters 6 April [1863]
Summary
Comments on MTM’s article ["On the existence of two forms of peloria", Nat. Hist. Rev. n.s. 3 (1863): 258–62]. Cites interesting case of peloric flower.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Maxwell Tylden Masters |
Date: | 6 Apr [1863] |
Classmark: | Catherine Barnes (dealer) (January 2002) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4076 |
To M. T. Masters [8–13 April 1863]
Summary
Sends two spikes of Corydalis.
Admits he may have drawn false inference from MTM’s division of peloria into two classes.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Maxwell Tylden Masters |
Date: | [8–13 Apr 1863] |
Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4091 |
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 |
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Darwin, C. R. | (21) |
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Masters, M. T. | (47) |