To Lawson Tait 29 April [1876]1
London
Ap. 29th
My dear Sir
Prof. Dyer says it wd. take much time to look up all the references about Nepenthes, but he says you will find a list of references in DeCandolles Prodromus Vol. XVII. p. 91; & further that at the Linn. Soc. you wd. be able to see much of the works referred to. Korthals’ “book is a large & costly one” & D. does not know when it cd. be consulted.2
With respect to your candidature for R. Socy, I of course know nothing, but I believe the Council judge as well as they can (& they take infinite pains) for what he has actually published, but are influenced somewhat by the estimation in which he was held, & considerably by the length of time during which he has been a candidate.3
Yours very faithfully | Ch. Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Candolle, Augustin Pyramus de and Candolle, Alphonse de. 1824–73. Prodromus systematis naturalis regni vegetabilis, sive enumeratio contracta ordinum generum specierumque plantarum huc usque cognitarum, juxta methodi naturalis normas digesta. 19 vols. Paris: Treuttel & Würtz [and others].
Charter and bye-laws of the Linnean Society of London. London: Taylor and Francis. 1874.
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Korthals, Pieter Willem. 1839–44. Over het geslacht Nepenthes. In Verhandelingen over de natuurlijke geschiedenis der Nederlandsche overzeesche bezittingen, door de Leden der Natuurkundige Commissie in Indië en andere Schrijvers, edited by Coenraad Jacob Temminck. Leiden: S. and J. Luchtmans and C. C. van der Hoek.
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
Summary
Sends Thiselton-Dyer’s suggestions for references to Nepenthes,
and gives his opinion on what will influence the Royal Society’s Council in considering RLT’s candidacy.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-10484
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
- Sent from
- London
- Source of text
- DAR 221.5: 36
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp (photocopy)
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 10484,” accessed on 28 March 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-10484.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 24