From M. T. Masters 30 April 1869
Gardeners’ Chronicle | & Agricultural Gazette Office, | 41, Wellington Street, Strand, W.C.
April 30 1869
My dear Sir,
On the chance that you may not have seen it I forward to you by book post a paper on the “Origin of Genera”—1 If it is of the slightest interest to you, please retain it, but if you have it already return it to me at any time— No doubt you saw Decaisne’s letter on the apple last week. He surely cannot mean that there are no intermediates between Malus & Pirus2
The other day at Chiswick Dr Hogg, Mr Moore Mr Barron the Superintendent3 & myself were looking at a tree in full blossom & none of us could tell for certain whether it was an apple or a pear— To be sure we had not the fruit before us—
faithfully yrs. | Maxwell. T. Masters
C. Darwin Esq
Footnotes
Bibliography
Cope, Edward Drinker. 1868. On the origin of genera. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (1868): 242–300.
Summary
Sends paper on the "Origin of genera".
J. Decaisne, in last week’s Gardeners’ Chronicle, on the apple, cannot mean there are no intermediates between Malus and Pyrus.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-6721
- From
- Maxwell Tylden Masters
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- Gardeners’ Chronicle
- Source of text
- DAR 171: 80
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 6721,” accessed on 26 September 2022, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-6721.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 17