From Lawson Tait 2 June [1875]
Summary
Paralysis of the nervous system of Dionaea. Uses of tails of mice.
| Author: | Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 2 June [1875] |
| Classmark: | DAR 178: 7 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10007 |
From Lawson Tait 5 June [1875]
Summary
May publish a lecture on insectivorous plants and would like to dedicate it to CD.
Wishes to become an F.R.S.
| Author: | Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 5 June [1875] |
| Classmark: | DAR 178: 8 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10011 |
From Lawson Tait 12 June [1875]
Summary
Has separated out a pepsin-like substance from the secretion of Drosera, which he proposes to call "Droserin".
| Author: | Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12 June [1875] |
| Classmark: | DAR 178: 9 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10015 |
From Lawson Tait 12 June [1875]
Summary
Intends sending a paper containing some of his histological work [see "Freezing process for section-cutting; … staining and mounting sections", J. Anat. & Physiol. 9 (1875): 249–58].
| Author: | Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12 June [1875] |
| Classmark: | DAR 178: 10 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10016 |
From Lawson Tait 16 June [1875]
Summary
Is waiting impatiently for the appearance of CD’s book [Insectivorous plants].
| Author: | Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 16 June [1875] |
| Classmark: | DAR 178: 11 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10020 |
From R. L. Tait 17 June [1875]
Summary
Insectivorous plants: the means and site of absorption of digested animal matter. [Newspaper clipping enclosed.]
| Author: | Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 17 June [1875] |
| Classmark: | DAR 178: 12 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10022 |
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 |
