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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
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
Date:
17 Jan [1877]
Source of text:
DAR 221.5: 37
Summary:

CD has only a trifling point to make in criticism [of RLT’s excerpt from Diseases of women]: he believes "the high value of well-bred males is due to their transmitting their good qualities to a far greater number of offspring than can the female".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project