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 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … in sweetpeas and the difference between monstrosities and slight variations. Discusses …
- … no definition can be drawn between monstrosities and slight variations (such as my theory …
- … Some facts lead me to think that monstrosities supervene generally at an early age; and …
- … result from the natural selection of monstrosities. You cannot do me a greater service …
- … I sincerely hope that your work on monstrosities will soon appear, for I am sure it will …
- … or retrogression in organisation in monstrosities of the Compositæ &c. do you not find it …
To M. T. Masters 25 April [1860]
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.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Maxwell Tylden Masters |
| Date: | 25 Apr [1860] |
| Classmark: | Shrewsbury School Archives (SR/Darwin box 1) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4818 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … work on prolification, a type of floral monstrosity; two of these papers were published in …
- … 24 July [1862] and n. 4). Since many monstrosities resembled other species in distinct …
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 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … other plants in a section entitled ‘Monstrosities as a cause of sterility’. He noted that, …
Darwin and Design
Summary
At the beginning of the nineteenth century in Britain, religion and the sciences were generally thought to be in harmony. The study of God’s word in the Bible, and of his works in nature, were considered to be part of the same truth. One version of this…
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- … Buckland remarked that the animal was an ‘apparent monstrosity of external form’. But he argued that …
Satire of FitzRoy's Narrative of the Voyages of the Adventure and Beagle, by John Clunies Ross. Transcription by Katharine Anderson
Summary
[f.146r Title page] Voyages of the Adventure and Beagle Supplement / to the 2nd 3rd and Appendix Volumes of the First / Edition Written / for and in the name of the Author of those / Volumes By J.C. Ross. / Sometime Master of a…
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- … I saw “ravenous monsters of Sharks” – their monstrosity consisting in their having two terrible …
Review: The Origin of Species
Summary
- by Asa Gray THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES BY MEANS OF NATURAL SELECTION (American Journal of Science and Arts, March, 1860) This book is already exciting much attention. Two American editions are announced, through which it will become familiar to many…
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- … detriment of its native vigor, or to the extent of practical monstrosity, although we secure forms …
Darwin in letters, 1877: Flowers and honours
Summary
Ever since the publication of Expression, Darwin’s research had centred firmly on botany. The year 1877 was no exception. The spring and early summer were spent completing Forms of flowers, his fifth book on a botanical topic. He then turned to the…
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- … mother, the subjects of Siebold’s study of medical monstrosity ( letter from C. T. E. Siebold, 10 …
