From Lawson Tait 24 June [1875]
Summary
An article on RLT’s lecture on insectivorous plants has appeared; the author adopts an anti-Darwinian attitude [see "Flower traps", Spectator 19 June 1875, pp. 784–5; RLT’s reply in Spectator 26 June 1875, pp. 816–17.]
Author: | Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 24 June [1875] |
Classmark: | DAR 178: 13 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10029 |
From Lawson Tait 15 July [1875]
Summary
Has read Insectivorous plants and is to review it for the Spectator.
Author: | Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 15 July [1875] |
Classmark: | DAR 178: 14 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10066 |
From Lawson Tait 19 July [1875]
Summary
Sends a note on the ferment of the Nepenthes secretion, which he asks CD to forward to Nature if he thinks it worth while [see "Insectivorous plants", Nature 12 (1875): 251–2].
Author: | Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 19 July [1875] |
Classmark: | DAR 178: 15 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10078 |
From Lawson Tait 21 July [1875]
Summary
Insectivorous plants: observations on the digestive fluid of Nepenthes.
Reproduction of plant by "parthenogenesis".
Author: | Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 21 July [1875] |
Classmark: | DAR 178: 16 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10086 |
From Lawson Tait 16 August 1875
Summary
Digestive fluid in insectivorous plants. RLT’s work on tails.
Author: | Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 Aug 1875 |
Classmark: | DAR 178: 17 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10122 |
From Lawson Tait 7 September [1875]
Summary
RLT speculates on the "moral nature" of parental protection shown by humans and traces it back to its first occurrence in the animal world.
Author: | Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 Sept [1875] |
Classmark: | DAR 178: 18 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10153 |
From Lawson Tait 11 October 1875
Summary
Wishes CD to present RLT’s paper on insectivorous plants to the Royal Society.
Author: | Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 11 Oct 1875 |
Classmark: | DAR 178: 19 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10190 |
From Lawson Tait 23 October [1875]
Summary
Thanks CD for consenting to present his paper.
Author: | Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 23 Oct [1875] |
Classmark: | DAR 178: 20 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10217 |
From Lawson Tait 6 November [1875]
Summary
Composition of "Droserin" [see 10015].
Author: | Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 Nov [1875] |
Classmark: | DAR 178: 21 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10244 |
From Lawson Tait 16 November [1875]
Summary
Has CD ever come across Dischidia rafflesiana?
Author: | Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 Nov [1875] |
Classmark: | DAR 178: 22 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10261 |
From Lawson Tait 16 November [1875]
Summary
Has extracted a highly deliquescent substance from digestive secretion of insectivorous plants.
Author: | Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 Nov [1875] |
Classmark: | DAR 178: 23 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10262 |
From Lawson Tait 20 November [1875]
Summary
His paper [for Royal Society] is completed; would CD like to read it?
Author: | Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20 Nov [1875] |
Classmark: | DAR 178: 24 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10268 |
From Lawson Tait 23 November [1875]
Summary
RLT’s paper will be sent to CD. Will CD notify him of any serious defects?
Author: | Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 23 Nov [1875] |
Classmark: | DAR 178: 26 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10274 |
From Lawson Tait 25 November [1875]
Summary
RLT’s paper on insectivorous plants is being copied.
Author: | Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 25 Nov [1875] |
Classmark: | DAR 178: 25 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10277 |
From Lawson Tait 29 November [1875]
Summary
RLT’s insectivorous plants paper.
The success of a recent lecture.
Author: | Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 29 Nov [1875] |
Classmark: | DAR 178: 27 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10281 |
From Lawson Tait 21 February 1876
Summary
RLT to review 2d ed. of Variation and write an article on Pangenesis.
Discussion of "Survival of the Fittest".
Author: | Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 21 Feb 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 178: 28–9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10405 |
From Lawson Tait 1 March 1876
Summary
Regrowth of an amputated extra thumb.
Author: | Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 Mar 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 178: 30 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10412 |
From Lawson Tait 26 March [1876]
Summary
Cat born tailless as a consequence of a spina bifida.
Author: | Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 26 Mar [1876] |
Classmark: | DAR 178: 31 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10429 |
From Lawson Tait 27 March [1876]
Summary
Regrowth of amputated digits is a capacity possessed by the new-born but rapidly lost.
Author: | Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 27 Mar [1876] |
Classmark: | DAR 178: 32 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10431 |
From Lawson Tait 25 April [1876]
Summary
Apologises for placing CD in the objectionable position of sponsor for a rejected paper. RLT has gone over old ground in ignorance.
Author: | Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 25 Apr [1876] |
Classmark: | DAR 178: 33 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10473 |
Darwin, C. R. | (43) |
Tait, Lawson | (34) |