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DCP-LETT-11001

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
Date:
15 June [1877]
Source of text:
DAR 221.5: 39
Summary:

Thanks RLT for his work, Diseases of women.

CD is also interested by RLT’s letter reporting a cat rearing chickens. "What a wonderful instinct is the maternal one."

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11235

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
Date:
13 Nov [1877]
Source of text:
DAR 221.5: 40
Summary:

CD declines to write for RLT’s new journal. He is not fitted for the work and dislikes it particularly. It costs loss of time as he "cannot change with ease from one job to another".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12420

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
Date:
13 Jan 1880
Source of text:
Shrewsbury School, Taylor Library
Summary:

The honour RLT proposes [Darwin Festival] is a great one, "but would it not be better to wait until I am in my grave?"

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12425

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
Date:
15 Jan [1880]
Source of text:
DAR 221.5: 41
Summary:

Sends copy of Kosmos [containing Krause’s article on Erasmus Darwin].

Believes he can spare an Erasmus Darwin letter.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12475

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
Date:
13 Feb 1880
Source of text:
Shrewsbury School, Taylor Library
Summary:

CD thanks RLT for his two notes, a newspaper article, and a copy of RLT’s address honouring him.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12481

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
Date:
14 Feb 1880
Source of text:
DAR 147: 535
Summary:

Would be glad to see RLT at Down if he thinks it fit to come there to deliver the address honouring CD.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12659

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
Date:
16 July [1880]
Source of text:
DAR 202: 86
Summary:

Is honoured by RLT’s announcement, and offers a contribution to the Birmingham scientific fund.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-12662

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
Date:
19 July 1880
Source of text:
Shrewsbury School, Taylor Library
Summary:

Sends £25 for the Birmingham Philosophical Society scientific fund.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13394

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
Date:
12 Oct 1881
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Owes much to Birmingham and great honour conferred on him, but cannot write what RLT wishes.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13682

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
Date:
13 Feb 1882
Source of text:
Shrewsbury School, Taylor Library
Summary:

Thanks for the birthday greetings.

"I feel a very old man and my course is nearly run."

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7993

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
Date:
8 Oct 1871
Source of text:
Shrewsbury School, Taylor Library
Summary:

Does not know anything about a supra-condyloid process on the humerus, but would like to see RLT’s paper should he publish on the subject.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9885F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
Date:
[13–15 Mar 1875]
Source of text:
Birmingham Daily Post , 8 April 1875, p. 6
Summary:

Thinks CD is right about the retention of a tail.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9896

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
Date:
20 Mar [1875]
Source of text:
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Bibliothek, Hannover (Noviss. 450: A 48)
Summary:

Has read RLT’s essay [The pathology and treatment of diseases of the ovaries (1874)] with interest. His facts about tumours seem to CD "highly favourable to some such notion as Pangenesis".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9902

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
Date:
25 Mar 1875
Source of text:
John Wilson (dealer) (Catalogue 62, July 1989)
Summary:

Would be glad to make RLT’s acquaintance, but CD’s health would make RLT’s visit to Down unprofitable. Suggests a meeting in London at end of month.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10007

From:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 June [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 178: 7
Summary:

Paralysis of the nervous system of Dionaea. Uses of tails of mice.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10011

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

May publish a lecture on insectivorous plants and would like to dedicate it to CD.

Wishes to become an F.R.S.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10015

From:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 June [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 178: 9
Summary:

Has separated out a pepsin-like substance from the secretion of Drosera, which he proposes to call "Droserin".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10016

From:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 June [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 178: 10
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].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10020

From:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 June [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 178: 11
Summary:

Is waiting impatiently for the appearance of CD’s book [Insectivorous plants].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10022

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

Insectivorous plants: the means and site of absorption of digested animal matter. [Newspaper clipping enclosed.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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