To Lawson Tait 17 [July 1875]
Summary
Informs RLT of J. D. Hooker’s work on Nepenthes ["Nepenthaceae, Cytinaceae", in Prodromus systematis naturalis regni vegetabilis by A. P. de Candolle (1873), 17: 90–116].
Has asked JDH to try secretions of pitchers that had caught no insects.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait |
| Date: | 17 [July 1875] |
| Classmark: | DAR 221.5: 27 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10023 |
To Lawson Tait 20 July [1875]
Summary
CD returns MS of a paper by RLT. "If you have succeeded in separating the ferment, the fact is manifestly important." Asks whether RLT tested the digestive ability of fluid from pitchers without animal matter. This would be necessary to prove that there was ferment in the fluid. CD is glad to hear about the [passage?] for guiding insects; he had guessed this to be the case.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait |
| Date: | 20 July [1875] |
| Classmark: | DAR 221.5: 28 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10080 |
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 |
| letter | (5) |
| Tait, Lawson | (3) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Tait, Lawson | (2) |
