From Lawson Tait 23 November [1875]1
7, Great Charles St. | Birmingham.
Novr 23
My Dear Sir,
Thanks for your reply. The paper and its abstract shall be sent to you by post tomorrow or next day at latest.2 If you read it & notice any defects of a serious kind I should be glad to have a chance of rectifying them before it is sent.
Yours truly, | Lawson Tait
You were right to be sceptical on the matter of the acid in the secretion of the virgin pitcher (detailed in Nature)3 I found the source of the error to be the litmus paper. You will find it alluded to in the paper.4
Footnotes
Bibliography
Tait, Lawson. 1879. Researches on the digestive principles of plants. [Read 22 May 1879.] Proceedings of the Birmingham Philosophical Society 1 (1876–9) pt 2: 125–39.
Summary
RLT’s paper will be sent to CD. Will CD notify him of any serious defects?
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-10274
- From
- Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- Birmingham
- Source of text
- DAR 178: 26
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 10274,” accessed on 26 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-10274.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 23