From:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Aug 1875
Source of text:
DAR 178: 17
Summary:
Digestive fluid in insectivorous plants. RLT’s work on tails.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Digestive fluid in insectivorous plants. RLT’s work on tails.
RLT speculates on the "moral nature" of parental protection shown by humans and traces it back to its first occurrence in the animal world.
Wishes CD to present RLT’s paper on insectivorous plants to the Royal Society.
Thanks CD for consenting to present his paper.
Composition of "Droserin" [see 10015].
Has CD ever come across Dischidia rafflesiana?
Has extracted a highly deliquescent substance from digestive secretion of insectivorous plants.
His paper [for Royal Society] is completed; would CD like to read it?
RLT’s paper will be sent to CD. Will CD notify him of any serious defects?
RLT’s paper on insectivorous plants is being copied.
Because CD has been unwell, he has not read RLT’s paper carefully, but it seems an important contribution to science. Hopes RLT’s chemical observations will be confirmed. It seems a great anomaly that two substances with an acid should be requisite for digestion.
RLT’s insectivorous plants paper.
The success of a recent lecture.
Abstract sent to the Royal Society. It seems to CD "uncommonly clear and well-done".