From:
Maxwell Tylden Masters
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Sept 1864
Source of text:
DAR 171: 70
Summary:
Explains several monstrous flowers sent by CD.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Maxwell Tylden Masters
Date:
20 Sept [1864]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:
CD sends thanks for MTM’s note on monsters. Adds comment on MTM’s point that some species become monstrous more frequently than others.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Maxwell Tylden Masters
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Feb 1865
Source of text:
DAR 171: 71
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.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Maxwell Tylden Masters
Date:
25 Apr [1860]
Source of text:
Shrewsbury School Archives (SR/Darwin box 1)
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.
Contributor:
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From:
Maxwell Tylden Masters
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 July 1865
Source of text:
DAR 171: 72
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.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Maxwell Tylden Masters
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
Sept 1865
Source of text:
DAR 171: 73
Summary:
He will soon take over editorship of Gardeners’ Chronicle and hopes for CD’s continued support.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Maxwell Tylden Masters
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 13 Dec 1877]
Source of text:
DAR 171: 65
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.
Contributor:
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From:
Maxwell Tylden Masters
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
Mar 1866
Source of text:
DAR 171: 74
Summary:
As Honorary Secretary of the Botanical Congress he asks that CD’s name be listed as a member of its committee.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Maxwell Tylden Masters
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Apr 1866
Source of text:
DAR 171: 75
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.
Contributor:
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From:
Maxwell Tylden Masters
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Mar 1867
Source of text:
DAR 96: 34–5, Gardeners’ Chronicle , 6 April 1867, p. 350.
Summary:
Forwards some plant specimens to CD for his comments.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Maxwell Tylden Masters
Date:
[28 Mar – 5 Apr 1867]
Source of text:
DAR 96: 34–5
Summary:
Discusses the orchid specimens received from MTM. Remarks on the self-sterility of Cypripedium and other orchids.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Maxwell Tylden Masters
Date:
21 Mar [1868]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:
Sends his niece’s [Lucy Wedgwood] observations on worms, vouches for her accuracy, and suggests the piece be inserted in Gardeners’ Chronicle [see "Worms", Gard. Chron. (1868): 324].
Adds his thanks for a "very kind review" of his book [Variation, Gard. Chron. (1868): 124].
Contributor:
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From:
Maxwell Tylden Masters
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Apr 1868
Source of text:
DAR 171: 76
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.
Contributor:
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From:
Maxwell Tylden Masters
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Sept 1868
Source of text:
DAR 171: 77
Summary:
Thanks for Emanuel Bonavia’s letter on a Laburnum monster.
Contributor:
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From:
Maxwell Tylden Masters
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Nov 1868
Source of text:
DAR 171: 78
Summary:
After examining a basket of piebald potatoes he does believe them to be a graft-hybrid as Friedrich Hildebrand might suggest.
Contributor:
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From:
Maxwell Tylden Masters
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Jan 1869
Source of text:
DAR 171: 79
Summary:
Sends CD another piebald potato and a spray of holly, from Mr Fish, discussed in Gardeners’ Chronicle of 22 Jan [1869, p. 83].
Contributor:
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From:
Maxwell Tylden Masters
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 Apr 1869
Source of text:
DAR 171: 80
Summary:
Sends paper on the "Origin of genera".
J. Decaisne, in last week’s Gardeners’ Chronicle, on the apple, cannot mean there are no intermediates between Malus and Pyrus.
Contributor:
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From:
Maxwell Tylden Masters
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Sept 1869
Source of text:
DAR 171: 81
Summary:
Robert Fenn exhibited potatoes at the Horticultural Society which showed general failure of graft-hybrids and provided an example of reversion to a wild Peruvian tuber resulting from cross-fertilisation.
Contributor:
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From:
Maxwell Tylden Masters
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 May 1871
Source of text:
DAR 171: 82
Summary:
After reading Descent, MTM sends report of a dog that woke its master at 7 a.m. on work days and 8 a.m. on Sunday.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Maxwell Tylden Masters
Date:
9 May [1871]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.395)
Summary:
Thanks correspondent for information about a dog.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project