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
Wants to know how to obtain The thoughts of Marcus Aurelius, mentioned in Descent [1: 106].
Comments on CD’s Cross and self-fertilisation: its usefulness to florists, and his solution of a long standing puzzle in showing the increase of monstrosities in self-fertilised plants.
Is unconvinced that correction in Cross and self-fertilisation requested by CD [see 10852] should be made. Asks CD to reconsider.
Encloses his translation of a draft letter from his friend Franz von Rekowsky [see 10855], who is German Consular Secretary at Messina.
Reports a bluebell monster.
Response to Cross and self-fertilisation, reviewed in Spectator.