To Lawson Tait [13–15 March 1875]
Summary
Thinks CD is right about the retention of a tail.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait |
| Date: | [13–15 Mar 1875] |
| Classmark: | Birmingham Daily Post, 8 April 1875, p. 6 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9885F |
To Lawson Tait 20 March [1875]
Summary
Has read RLT’s essay [The pathology and treatment of diseases of the ovaries (1874)] with interest. His facts about tumours seem to CD "highly favourable to some such notion as Pangenesis".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait |
| Date: | 20 Mar [1875] |
| Classmark: | Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Bibliothek, Hannover (Noviss. 450: A 48) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9896 |
To Lawson Tait 25 March 1875
Summary
Would be glad to make RLT’s acquaintance, but CD’s health would make RLT’s visit to Down unprofitable. Suggests a meeting in London at end of month.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait |
| Date: | 25 Mar 1875 |
| Classmark: | John Wilson (dealer) (Catalogue 62, July 1989) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9902 |
From Lawson Tait 12 March [1875]
Summary
Purpose of bushy tails; their usefulness to their owners as a means of keeping warm.
| Author: | Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12 Mar [1875] |
| Classmark: | DAR 178: 2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9885 |
From Lawson Tait 16 March [1875]
Summary
Uses of tails of mice. Functions of tails generally.
| Author: | Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 16 Mar [1875] |
| Classmark: | DAR 178: 3 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9889 |
From Lawson Tait 17 March [1875]
Summary
Sends a short essay [The pathology and treatment of diseases of the ovaries (1874)] on which he would welcome CD’s opinion. Believes problems of pathology can be attacked by regarding them from "Darwinian" point of view.
| Author: | Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 17 Mar [1875] |
| Classmark: | DAR 178: 4 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9892 |
From Lawson Tait 27 March [1875]
Summary
Is preparing a paper on the umbilical cord ["On the anatomy of the umbilical cord", Proc. R. Soc. Lond. 23 (1875): 498–501; 24 (1876): 417–40] of which he sends a preliminary note [missing]. Believes spiral growth of the umbilical cord is important evidence of the descent of man; speculates on spiral growth in general.
| Author: | Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 27 Mar [1875] |
| Classmark: | DAR 178: 5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9904 |
| letter | (7) |
| Tait, Lawson | (4) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Tait, Lawson | (3) |
