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DCP-LETT-6577

From:
William Chester Tait
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Jan 1869
Source of text:
DAR 178: 43
Summary:

Believes Portuguese habit of removing tails of pointers is responsible for birth of some tailless dogs.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6593

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Chester Tait
Date:
2 Feb [1869]
Source of text:
Alan R. Tait (private collection)
Summary:

Discusses case of tailless dogs.

Does not intend to follow up work on variation under domestication.

Asks for specimen of Drosophyllum from Portugal.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6623

From:
William Chester Tait
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Feb 1869
Source of text:
DAR 178: 44
Summary:

Has been trying to get Drosophyllum lusitanicum for CD.

Intends to breed from two pointers born tailless.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6631

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Chester Tait
Date:
24 Feb 1869
Source of text:
Alan R. Tait (private collection)
Summary:

Discusses method for shipping Drosophyllum specimens.

Asks about inheritance in tailless dogs;

the growth of horns in merino sheep.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6639

From:
William Chester Tait
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Mar 1869
Source of text:
DAR 58.1: 18a–f
Summary:

Sends a single specimen of Drosophyllum lusitanicum with description from F. de Avellar Brotero’s Flora Lusitanica [1804].

Discusses Portuguese ferns,

inherited mutilation,

and the earth’s geological history.

Evolution of behaviour and beauty by natural selection.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-6644

From:
William Chester Tait
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Mar 1869
Source of text:
DAR 178: 45
Summary:

Is forwarding potted specimens of Drosophyllum.

Will make inquiries about sheep.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6661

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Chester Tait
Date:
12 and 16 Mar 1869
Source of text:
DAR 147: 541; Sotheby’s (dealers) (19 July 1990)
Summary:

Thanks for specimen of Drosophyllum.

Describes capacity of various plants to catch flies.

Cannot name fern specimen.

Laugher pigeon descended from Columba livia.

Discusses tailless dogs.

Believes astronomical phenomenon responsible for oscillation of level of earth’s crust.

Would WCT like copy of Orchids?

Expected plants [Drosophyllum] have arrived.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6693

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Chester Tait
Date:
7 Apr [1869]
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections DC AL 1/10)
Summary:

Drosophyllum plants recovering [from trip]. Describes experiments on them.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6696

From:
William Chester Tait
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Apr 1869
Source of text:
DAR 178: 46
Summary:

Insectivorous plants; Drosophyllum lusitanicum.

Descriptions of the local sheep.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6705

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Chester Tait
Date:
18 Apr [1869]
Source of text:
Alan R. Tait (private collection)
Summary:

Not well owing to fall from horse.

[Drosophyllum] plants going on very well.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6742

From:
William Chester Tait
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 May 1869
Source of text:
DAR 58.1: 19–20, DAR 178: 47
Summary:

Development of the horns of local sheep.

Results of breeding tailless pointers: of six puppies, three had stumps like parents.

Observations on Drosophyllum.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6768

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Chester Tait
Date:
1 June [1869]
Source of text:
Alan R. Tait (private collection)
Summary:

WCT should send specimens to Orpington Station.

Invites him to visit, but afraid conversation "would quite knock me up".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6825

From:
William Chester Tait
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 July 1869
Source of text:
DAR 178: 48
Summary:

Drosophyllum lusitanicum.

Believes principle of natural selection can be more widely applied.

Flower structure of Geranium.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6833

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Chester Tait
Date:
17 July [1869]
Source of text:
DAR 147: 545; Sotheby’s (dealers) (19 July 1990)
Summary:

Discusses need for cross-fertilisation in Geranium.

Hooker begins to doubt whether Drosophyllum so closely allied to Drosera.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6868

From:
William Chester Tait
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[23 Aug 1869]
Source of text:
DAR 178: 49
Summary:

Will obtain some Drosophyllum seed for CD.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6872

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Chester Tait
Date:
27 Aug [1869]
Source of text:
DAR 147: 546
Summary:

Will not trouble WCT for more specimens of Drosophyllum. Hooker says genus is closely allied to Drosera, though having such different habits.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6919

From:
William Chester Tait
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Sept 1869
Source of text:
DAR 178: 50
Summary:

On endemic flora and fauna of Portugal.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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