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 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 |
From Lawson Tait 8 April [1875]
Summary
Arrangements for a visit to Down.
| Author: | Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 8 Apr [1875] |
| Classmark: | DAR 178: 6 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9918 |
