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From:
J. S. Henslow
To:
M. T. Masters
Date:
12 March 1857
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society Library Mss.B.H382
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Maxwell Tylden Masters
Date:
7 Apr [1860]
Source of text:
The New York Public Library. Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations. The Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature.
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".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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:
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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
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
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Maxwell Tylden Masters
Date:
6 Apr [1863]
Source of text:
Catherine Barnes (dealer) (January 2002)
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.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Maxwell Tylden Masters
Date:
[8–13 Apr 1863]
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:
Sends two spikes of Corydalis.
Admits he may have drawn false inference from MTM’s division of peloria into two classes.
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:
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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:
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
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Maxwell Tylden Masters
Date:
31 Aug [1871]
Source of text:
Herne Bay Historical Records Society (Dr Tom Bowes’s scrapbook 4 p. 71)
Summary:
Sends an article for insertion in Gardeners’ Chronicle.
Suggests sending a proof ‘as my hand-writing is so bad’.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Maxwell Tylden Masters
Date:
29 Sept [1873]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:
CD refuses an interview because of a severe headache, but wishes all success to the Gardeners’ Chronicle.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Maxwell Tylden Masters
Date:
7 Aug [1874]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.447)
Summary:
Discusses flower structures of the hop.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Maxwell Tylden Masters
Date:
7 Mar 1875
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.464)
Summary:
Thanks correspondent for article on CD in Gardeners’ Chronicle.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Maxwell Tylden Masters
Date:
[July 1875]
Source of text:
Sotheby’s (dealers) (12 December 2012)
Summary:
Has told publisher to send a copy of Insectivorous plants.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Maxwell Tylden Masters
Date:
10 July [1875]
Source of text:
Smithsonian Libraries and Archives (Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology MSS 405 A. Gift of the Burndy Library)
Summary:
Thanks MTM for his excellent review [of Insectivorous plants]
and for his trouble about the gooseberry.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project