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DCP-LETT-3645

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Maxwell Tylden Masters
Date:
8 July [1862]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
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.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3663

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Maxwell Tylden Masters
Date:
24 July [1862]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
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.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4618

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

DCP-LETT-6032

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].

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