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DCP-LETT-10281

From:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Nov [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 178: 27
Summary:

RLT’s insectivorous plants paper.

The success of a recent lecture.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10405

From:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Feb 1876
Source of text:
DAR 178: 28–9
Summary:

RLT to review 2d ed. of Variation and write an article on Pangenesis.

Discussion of "Survival of the Fittest".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10412

From:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Mar 1876
Source of text:
DAR 178: 30
Summary:

Regrowth of an amputated extra thumb.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10429

From:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Mar [1876]
Source of text:
DAR 178: 31
Summary:

Cat born tailless as a consequence of a spina bifida.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10431

From:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Mar [1876]
Source of text:
DAR 178: 32
Summary:

Regrowth of amputated digits is a capacity possessed by the new-born but rapidly lost.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10473

From:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Apr [1876]
Source of text:
DAR 178: 33
Summary:

Apologises for placing CD in the objectionable position of sponsor for a rejected paper. RLT has gone over old ground in ignorance.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10570

From:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Aug [1876]
Source of text:
DAR 178: 34
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.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10574

From:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Aug 1876
Source of text:
DAR 178: 35
Summary:

Proposes to work on the origin of diseases; is going to study syphilis.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10795

From:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Jan 1877
Source of text:
DAR 178: 36
Summary:

Is writing Diseases of women [1877]; sends some proof-sheets for criticism.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10844

From:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Feb 1877
Source of text:
DAR 178: 37
Summary:

Sends another extract [from Diseases of women (1877)].

Has reviewed Cross and self-fertilisation in the Spectator.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10868

From:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Feb 1877
Source of text:
DAR 178: 38
Summary:

Wants to know how to obtain The thoughts of Marcus Aurelius, mentioned in Descent [1: 106].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10999

From:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 June [1877]
Source of text:
DAR 178: 39
Summary:

Forwards a copy of his book Diseases of women [1877].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11297

From:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 Dec [1877]
Source of text:
DAR 178: 40
Summary:

Speculation on the process by which tails have been lost; believes he has evidence from man that it is related to spina bifida.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9885

From:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Mar [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 178: 2
Summary:

Purpose of bushy tails; their usefulness to their owners as a means of keeping warm.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9889

From:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Mar [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 178: 3
Summary:

Uses of tails of mice. Functions of tails generally.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9892

From:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Mar [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 178: 4
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.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9904

From:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Mar [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 178: 5
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.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9918

From:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Apr [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 178: 6
Summary:

Arrangements for a visit to Down.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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