To M. T. Masters [6–12 December 1877]
Summary
Reports on the flowering and growth of a branch of Echeveria stolonifera.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Maxwell Tylden Masters |
Date: | [6–12 Dec 1877] |
Classmark: | Gardeners’ Chronicle, 29 December 1877, p. 805 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11294 |
To M. T. Masters [July 1875]
Summary
Has told publisher to send a copy of Insectivorous plants.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Maxwell Tylden Masters |
Date: | [July 1875] |
Classmark: | Sotheby’s (dealers) (12 December 2012) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10038F |
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- … Sotheby’s (dealers) (12 December 2012) Charles Robert Darwin [July 1875] Maxwell Tylden …
To M. T. Masters 24 July [1862]
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.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Maxwell Tylden Masters |
Date: | 24 July [1862] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3663 |
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 |
From M. T. Masters 12 July 1865
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Will forward Robert Caspary’s paper to CD when it is published ["Sur les hybrides obtenus par la greffe", Bull. Congr. Int. Bot. & Hortic. Amsterdam (1865): 65–80].
MTM is to become editor of Gardeners’ Chronicle.
Author: | Maxwell Tylden Masters |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 July 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 72 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4871 |
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- … From M. T. Masters 12 July 1865 …
- … DAR 171: 72 Maxwell Tylden Masters Peckham 12 July 1865 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … et d’Horticulture held in Amsterdam from 7 to 12 April 1865. CD read about the paper in …
- … from J. D. Hooker, 2 May 1865 and n. 12; see also CD’s annotations to the letter from …
- … Rye Lane Peckham. S.E. July 12. 1865 My dear Sir/ I was present when D r . Caspary’s paper …
To M. T. Masters [28 March – 5 April 1867]
Summary
Discusses the orchid specimens received from MTM. Remarks on the self-sterility of Cypripedium and other orchids.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Maxwell Tylden Masters |
Date: | [28 Mar – 5 Apr 1867] |
Classmark: | DAR 96: 34–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5468 |
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- … Variation 2: 133–5. See Correspondence vol. 12, letter from John Scott, 28 March 1864 , …
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 |
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- … Hooker, [2 June 1847] , [10 June 1847] , and [12 June 1847] . Origin , p. 145. See also …
From M. T. Masters 12 July 1862
Summary
Will be sending information on peloric plants from his father [William Masters] soon.
Author: | Maxwell Tylden Masters |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 July 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 171.1: 68 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3655 |
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 |
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- … Correspondence vol. 4, letter to J. D. Hooker, [12 June 1847] , Correspondence vol. 8, …
From Maxwell Tylden Masters 7 February 1865
Summary
MTM heard part of the abstract of CD’s paper on climbing plants, read at the Linnean Society on 2 Feb. Offers CD his opinion and information on the subject, which he has studied for many years.
Author: | Maxwell Tylden Masters |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 Feb 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 71 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4766 |
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- … in Dipsacus (see Correspondence vol. 12, letter from M. T. Masters, 19 September …
- … Masters 1855 ). See Correspondence vol. 12, letter from M. T. Masters, 19 September …
- … with climbing plants (see Correspondence vol. 12, letter to Daniel Oliver, 11 March [ …
- … 1864] , and letter from Daniel Oliver, 12 March 1864 and n. 9). CD referred to Master’s …
- … Linnean Society of London ( Botany ) for 12 June 1865 ( General index to the Journal of …
From M. T. Masters September 1865
Summary
He will soon take over editorship of Gardeners’ Chronicle and hopes for CD’s continued support.
Author: | Maxwell Tylden Masters |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | Sept 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 73 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4886 |
From M. T. Masters [before 13 December 1877]
Summary
Thanks CD for his specimen of "self-containedness". Some of the bromeliads will flower under similar treatment, but MTM does not know whether they seed.
Author: | Maxwell Tylden Masters |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 13 Dec 1877] |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 65 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4888 |
From M. T. Masters 6 August 1874
Summary
Thanks for the monoecious hop. It was the first monstrosity he ever observed.
Contemplates an article in Gardeners’ Chronicle on the horticultural bearing of CD’s fertilisation work.
Will publish note forwarded by CD on a male hop with apparently female flowers (Gardeners’ Chronicle, 8 August 1874, p. 174).
Author: | Maxwell Tylden Masters |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 Aug 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 85 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9591 |
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- … Edited by James A. H. Murray, et al. 12 vols. and supplement. Oxford: Clarendon Press. …
From M. T. Masters 21 September 1869
Summary
Robert Fenn exhibited potatoes at the Horticultural Society which showed general failure of graft-hybrids and provided an example of reversion to a wild Peruvian tuber resulting from cross-fertilisation.
Author: | Maxwell Tylden Masters |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 21 Sept 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 81 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6902 |
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- … in Gardeners’ Chronicle 39 (1869): 1011–12. CD had discussed hybrid potatoes produced by …
From Maxwell Tylden Masters 19 September 1864
Summary
Explains several monstrous flowers sent by CD.
Author: | Maxwell Tylden Masters |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 19 Sept 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 70 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4617 |
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- … this interest (see letter to J. D. Hooker, 12 July [1864] and n. 7). Masters refers to …
From M. T. Masters 20 April 1866
Summary
Expects R. Caspary’s paper to be published soon.
Reports the conclusions of another of RC’s papers on the movement of tree branches due to cold [Bull. Congr. Int. Bot. & Hortic. Lond. (1866): 98–117]
and discusses a paper by H. Lecoq on the mountain flora of the Auvergne [Proc. Bot. Congr. (1866): 158–65]. He disagrees with CD on glaciation and its effect on geographical distribution.
Author: | Maxwell Tylden Masters |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20 Apr 1866 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 75 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5062 |
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- … 1864a and 1864b, and Correspondence vol. 12). In support of his theory, Frankland cited …
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Lost in translation: From Auguste Forel, 12 November 1874
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You receive a gift from your scientific hero Charles Darwin. It is a book that contains sections on your favourite topic—ants. If only you had paid attention when your mother tried to teach you English you might be able to read it. But you didn’t, and you…
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- … barely understand a word. Writing in French on 12 November 1874 to thank Darwin for the …
Darwin’s hothouse and lists of hothouse plants
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Darwin became increasingly involved in botanical experiments in the years after the publication of Origin. The building of a small hothouse - a heated greenhouse - early in 1863 greatly increased the range of plants that he could keep for scientific…
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- … Correspondence vol. 10, letter to J. D. Hooker, 12 [December 1862] and n. 13). Initially, …
- … Stove [that is, cool hothouse]’ ( Correspondence vol. 12, letter to J. D. Hooker, 26[–7] March …
- … of different temperatures’ (letter to W. C. Tait, 12 and 16 March [1869] , Calendar no. 6661) …
- … 100 yards’ to the greenhouses ( Correspondence vol. 12, letter to J. D. Hooker, [25 January …
- … in mid-February (see letter from L. C. Treviranus, 12 February 1863 ). The second list is …
- … Anoectochilus argenteus 12 5 s . …
- … punctatum. 11. Mormodes aurantiaca 12. ‘Anoectochilus argenteus 5 s .’ deleted in …
- … Bolbophyllum barbigerum 12 major …
- … Ampelidae. 11. Alloplectus chrysanthus. 12. Bulbophyllum barbigerum. 13. …
Darwin in letters, 1879: Tracing roots
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Darwin spent a considerable part of 1879 in the eighteenth century. His journey back in time started when he decided to publish a biographical account of his grandfather Erasmus Darwin to accompany a translation of an essay on Erasmus’s evolutionary ideas…
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- … Seventy years old Darwin’s seventieth birthday on 12 February was a cause for international …
- … and good as could be’ ( letter from Karl Beger, [ c. 12 February 1879] ). The masters of …
- … ). The botanist and schoolteacher Hermann Müller wrote on 12 February to wish Darwin a ‘long and …
- … well, and with little fatigue’ ( letter to G. H. Darwin, 12 July 1879 , and letter from Leonard …
- … ever about life of D r . D’ ( letter to Francis Darwin, 12 July [1879] ). It was little …
- … Thiselton-Dyer, 5 June 1879 , and letter to G. H. Darwin, 12 July 1879 ). Darwin’s final task …
- … inn ‘ very comfortable’, but told Leonard Darwin on 12 August that there were ‘too many human …
- … not to have come up when the Darwins lunched with him on 12 August (Darwin’s ‘Journal’). Nor did …
- … the world. At the end of the year he was awarded a prize of 12,000 francs by the Turin Academy of …
- … which greatly pleased Darwin ( letter from Grant Allen, 12 February 1879 ). One of Allen’s targets …
- … engagement being made public ( letter from T. H. Farrer, 12 October 1879 ). Darwin’s response not …
- … accurate in its treatment’ ( letter from Francis Galton, 12 November 1879 ). The comment that …
Darwin in letters, 1874: A turbulent year
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The year 1874 was one of consolidation, reflection, and turmoil for Darwin. He spent the early months working on second editions of Coral reefs and Descent of man; the rest of the year was mostly devoted to further research on insectivorous plants. A…
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- … (letters from George Cupples, 21 February 1874 and 12 March 1874 ); the material was …
- … the Sandwich Islands (Hawaii; letters from T. N. Staley, 12 February 1874 and 20 February 1874 …
- … was published in November 1874 ( letter from R. F. Cooke, 12 November 1874 ). Though containing …
- … print runs would be very good ( letter from R. F. Cooke, 12 November 1874 ). Darwin's …
- … Review & in the same type’ ( letter from John Murray, 12 August 1874 ). George’s letter …
- … he finally wrote a polite, very formal letter to Mivart on 12 January 1875 , refusing to hold any …
- … & snugness’ ( letter from Emma Darwin to J. B. Innes, 12 October [1874] ). More …
- … vicar of Deptford ( letter from Emma Darwin to J. B. Innes, 12 October [1874] ), but to her …
- … mechanism that Darwin agreed with ( letter to F. J. Cohn, 12 October 1874 ). Darwin’s American …
- … bank with enormous tips to his ears ( letter from Asa Gray, 12 May 1874 ). The Manchester …
- … excellent, & as clear as light’ ( letter to John Tyndall, 12 August [1874] ). Hooker …
1.2 George Richmond, marriage portrait
Summary
< Back to Introduction Few likenesses of Darwin in his youth survive, although more may once have existed. In a letter of 1873 an old Shrewsbury friend, Arthur Mostyn Owen, offered to send Darwin a watercolour sketch of him, painted many years…
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- … < Back to Introduction Few likenesses of Darwin in his youth survive, although more …
Darwin in letters, 1881: Old friends and new admirers
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In May 1881, Darwin, one of the best-known celebrities in England if not the world, began writing about all the eminent men he had met. He embarked on this task, which formed an addition to his autobiography, because he had nothing else to do. He had…
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- … made a small omission ’. Stephen’s reply on 12 January was flattering, reassuring, and …
- … books being ‘a game of chance’ ( letter to R. F. Cooke, 12 April 1881 ). On 18 May he described …
- … Darwin had difficulty in obtaining mature plants. On 12 April, he reported to Müller , ‘I have …
- … to make me happy & contented,’ he told Wallace on 12 July , ‘but life has become very …
- … fight’ (letters to J. D. Hooker, 6 August 1881 and 12 August 1881 ). Darwin may have …
- … else’s judgment on the subject ( letter to A. R. Wallace, 12 July 1881 ). However, some requests …
Darwin's in letters, 1873: Animal or vegetable?
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Having laboured for nearly five years on human evolution, sexual selection, and the expression of emotions, Darwin was able to devote 1873 almost exclusively to his beloved plants. He resumed work on the digestive powers of sundews and Venus fly traps, and…
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Darwin in letters, 1862: A multiplicity of experiments
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1862 was a particularly productive year for Darwin. This was not only the case in his published output (two botanical papers and a book on the pollination mechanisms of orchids), but more particularly in the extent and breadth of the botanical experiments…
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- … Hooker: ‘he is no common man’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 12 [December 1862] ). Two sexual …
- … of the year, he wrote to Hooker ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 12 [December 1862] ): ‘my notions on …
- … least 3 classes of dimorphism’ ( letter to Daniel Oliver, 12 [April 1862] ), and experimenting to …
- … passed so miserable a nine months’ ( letter to W. D. Fox, 12 September [1862] ). A family …
- … ‘Botany is a new subject to me’ ( letter to John Scott, 12 November [1862] ), but, impressed by …
- … into Tyndall’s ears’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 10–12 November [1862] ). Another of Darwin’s …
German and Dutch photograph albums
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Darwin Day 2018: To celebrate Darwin's 209th birthday, we present two lavishly produced albums of portrait photographs which Darwin received from continental admirers 141 years ago. These unusual gifts from Germany and the Netherlands are made…
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- … their generous sympathy. ( Letter to A. A. van Bemmelen, 12 February 1877 ) View the …
Darwin in letters, 1875: Pulling strings
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‘I am getting sick of insectivorous plants’, Darwin confessed in January 1875. He had worked on the subject intermittently since 1859, and had been steadily engaged on a book manuscript for nine months; January also saw the conclusion of a bitter dispute…
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- … than insectivorous plants. As he confessed to Hooker on 12 December , ‘I have not felt so angry …
- … from his family, he sent a curt note to Mivart on 12 January , breaking off all future …
- … of a bill that was presented to the House of Commons on 12 May, one week after a rival bill based on …
- … The author, Fritz Schultze, contacted Darwin himself on 12 June , describing the aims of his book …
- … scientific Socy. has done in my time,’ he told Hooker on 12 December . ‘I wish that I knew what …
Darwin in letters, 1878: Movement and sleep
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In 1878, Darwin devoted most of his attention to the movements of plants. He investigated the growth pattern of roots and shoots, studying the function of specific organs in this process. Working closely with his son Francis, Darwin devised a series of…
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Diagrams and drawings in letters
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Over 850 illustrations from the printed volumes of The Correspondence of Charles Darwin have been added to the online transcripts of the letters. The contents include maps, diagrams, drawings, sketches and photographs, covering geological, botanical,…
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- … Rubiaceae with enclosures containing bud samples, 12 May 1878 G. H. Darwin's …
Darwin in letters, 1869: Forward on all fronts
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At the start of 1869, Darwin was hard at work making changes and additions for a fifth edition of Origin. He may have resented the interruption to his work on sexual selection and human evolution, but he spent forty-six days on the task. Much of the…
The Lyell–Lubbock dispute
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In May 1865 a dispute arose between John Lubbock and Charles Lyell when Lubbock, in his book Prehistoric times, accused Lyell of plagiarism. The dispute caused great dismay among many of their mutual scientific friends, some of whom took immediate action…
Darwin’s queries on expression
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When Darwin resumed systematic research on emotions around 1866, he began to collect observations more widely and composed a list of queries on human expression. A number of handwritten copies were sent out in 1867 (see, for example, letter to Fritz Muller…
Darwin in letters, 1847-1850: Microscopes and barnacles
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Darwin's study of barnacles, begun in 1844, took him eight years to complete. The correspondence reveals how his interest in a species found during the Beagle voyage developed into an investigation of the comparative anatomy of other cirripedes and…
Cross and self fertilisation
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The effects of cross and self fertilisation in the vegetable kingdom, published on 10 November 1876, was the result of a decade-long project to provide evidence for Darwin’s belief that ‘‘Nature thus tells us, in the most emphatic manner, that she abhors…
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Henrietta Darwin's diary
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Darwin's daughter Henrietta kept a diary for a few momentous weeks in 1871. This was the year in which Descent of Man, the most controversial of her father's books after Origin itself, appeared, a book which she had helped him write. The small…
Darwin in letters, 1856-1857: the 'Big Book'
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In May 1856, Darwin began writing up his 'species sketch’ in earnest. During this period, his working life was completely dominated by the preparation of his 'Big Book', which was to be called Natural selection. Using letters are the main…
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Darwin & Glen Roy
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Although Darwin was best known for his geological work in South America and other remote Beagle destinations, he made one noteworthy attempt to explain a puzzling feature of British geology. In 1838, two years after returning from the voyage, he travelled…