To Lawson Tait 2 March 1876
Down
March 2. 1876
My dear Sir
Many thanks for your note.1 I took an extraordinary amount of trouble over two cases and wrote dozens of long letters, and the evidence was so shaky that nothing less than a case closely inspected by highly competent witnesses, and recorded at the time, would in my opinion be sufficient2
In haste, | Yours very faithfully | Ch. Darwin
I was most cruelly vexed at my mistake, yet I made formerly as I thought careful enquiries.3
Footnotes
Bibliography
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Variation 2d ed.: The variation of animals and plants under domestication. By Charles Darwin. 2d edition. 2 vols. London: John Murray. 1875.
Variation: The variation of animals and plants under domestication. By Charles Darwin. 2 vols. London: John Murray. 1868.
Summary
Thanks RLT for his letter. CD took much trouble over his two cases [regrowth of amputated supernumerary digits, in Variation] but the evidence was shaky.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-10414
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- DAR 147: 527
- Physical description
- C 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 10414,” accessed on 20 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-10414.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 24
