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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

DCP-LETT-10009

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
Date:
4 June [1875]
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections DC AL 1/19)
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].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10013

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
Date:
11 June [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 221.5: 24–5
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.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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