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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
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
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
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
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
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
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