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 |
To Lawson Tait 4 June [1875]
Summary
CD’s observations on the power of movement and transmission of motor impulses in plants. If RLT succeeds with the tails of mice, it will be "a beautiful little discovery"; CD will enjoy it the more "because some German sneered at natural selection and instanced the tail of the mouse" [see 10013].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait |
Date: | 4 June [1875] |
Classmark: | Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections DC AL 1/19) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10009 |
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 |
To Lawson Tait 11 June [1875]
Summary
Has found that H. G. Bronn in the chapter appended to his translation of Origin cited ears and tail of mice as facts opposed to natural selection. Suggests RLT examine hairs of tails of mice for possible nerves.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait |
Date: | 11 June [1875] |
Classmark: | DAR 221.5: 24–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10013 |
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 |
To Lawson Tait 13 June [1875]
Summary
RLT’s observations come too late, as CD’s book on Droseraceae has been printed.
Reports on his observations of ferment in secretions in Drosera rotundifolia and Drosophyllum.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait |
Date: | 13 June [1875] |
Classmark: | DAR 221.5: 26 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10017 |
To Lawson Tait [after 17 June 1875]
Summary
RLT will find abundant evidence of absorption by Aldrovanda in CD’s forthcoming book [Insectivorous plants]. Congratulates him on his discovery of ferments.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait |
Date: | [after 17 June 1875] |
Classmark: | Shrewsbury School, Taylor Library |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10019 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 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 |
To Lawson Tait 10 September [1875]
Summary
CD gives a few instances of various animals (starfish, earwigs, spiders) that take charge of their young.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait |
Date: | 10 Sept [1875] |
Classmark: | Shrewsbury School, Taylor Library |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10154 |
To Lawson Tait 15 August [1875]
Summary
Thanks him for his kind review of Insectivorous plants in the Spectator. Disputes Tait’s report of a Nepenthes that trapped a fly but did not digest it.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait |
Date: | 15 Aug [1875] |
Classmark: | Leeds University Library Special Collections (Brotherton Collection, tipped into Insectivorous plants (1875): MS Misc. Letters 2) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10177F |
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