From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Maxwell Tylden Masters
Date:
10 Oct [1876]
Source of text:
DAR 146: 347
Summary:
Discusses views of [Alexander James] Maule on potatoes.
Discusses graft-hybrids.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Maxwell Tylden Masters
Date:
13 Apr [1860]
Source of text:
DAR 146: 338
Summary:
Discusses crosses in sweetpeas and the difference between monstrosities and slight variations. Discusses peloric flowers.
Thanks for correction about furze.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Maxwell Tylden Masters
Date:
26 Feb [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 146: 339
Summary:
Obliged for MTM’s ["Vegetable morphology", Br. & Foreign Med.-Chir. Rev. 29 (1862): 202–18].
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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.
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From:
Maxwell Tylden Masters
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Jan 1876
Source of text:
DAR 171: 86
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.]
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From:
Maxwell Tylden Masters
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Jan 1876
Source of text:
DAR 76: B185
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.]
Contributor:
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From:
Maxwell Tylden Masters
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[13 Dec 1877]
Source of text:
DAR 68: 6
Summary:
Sends the name of a plant: Cotyledon stolonifera.
Contributor:
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From:
Maxwell Tylden Masters
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Nov 1880
Source of text:
DAR 171: 87
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].
Contributor:
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From:
Maxwell Tylden Masters
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Mar 1862
Source of text:
DAR 171.1: 67
Summary:
He has only an uncertain memory of the placement of stamens in the [monstrous?] primrose CD asked about.
Contributor:
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From:
Maxwell Tylden Masters
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[c. 15 May 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 171.1: 66
Summary:
Thanks for Orchids.
Contributor:
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From:
Maxwell Tylden Masters
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 July 1862
Source of text:
DAR 171.1: 68
Summary:
Will be sending information on peloric plants from his father [William Masters] soon.
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From:
Maxwell Tylden Masters
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Apr 1863
Source of text:
DAR 171: 69
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.
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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:
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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