From M. T. Masters 26 January 1876
Horticultural Club, | Adelphi Terrace, | W.C.
Jan 26. 1876
My dear Sir/
I am greatly obliged for your letter and with reference to the exudation of a saccharine secretion from the leaves of the Lime, independently of Aphides, I have no doubt that this really does occur— The matter was bruited at more than one of the meetings of the Scientific Committee of the R. Hort. Society and if you wish it I shall be pleased to hunt up the references in the Chronicle1
With many thanks | faithfully yrs. | Maxwell. T. Masters
CD annotations
Footnotes
Bibliography
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Cross and self fertilisation: The effects of cross and self fertilisation in the vegetable kingdom. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1876.
Müller, Hermann. 1873. Die Befruchtung der Blumen durch Insekten und die gegenseitigen Anpassungen beider. Ein Beitrag zur Erkenntniss des ursächlichen Zusammenhanges in der organischen Natur. Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann.
Orchids 2d ed.: The various contrivances by which orchids are fertilised by insects. By Charles Darwin. 2d edition, revised. London: John Murray. 1877.
Orchids: On the various contrivances by which British and foreign orchids are fertilised by insects, and on the good effects of intercrossing. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1862.
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.]
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-10367
- From
- Maxwell Tylden Masters
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- Horticultural Club
- Source of text
- DAR 76: B185
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp †
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 10367,” accessed on 20 September 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-10367.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 24