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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 |
From Lawson Tait 4 August [1876]
Summary
Wishes to make CD an Honorary Member of the Birmingham Natural History Society.
RLT has attempted [in a paper] to apply evolution to moral life.
| Author: | Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 4 Aug [1876] |
| Classmark: | DAR 178: 34 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10570 |
From Lawson Tait 8 August 1876
Summary
Proposes to work on the origin of diseases; is going to study syphilis.
| Author: | Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 8 Aug 1876 |
| Classmark: | DAR 178: 35 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10574 |
