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

Purpose of bushy tails; their usefulness to their owners as a means of keeping warm.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Mar [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 178: 3
Summary:

Uses of tails of mice. Functions of tails generally.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Mar [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 178: 4
Summary:

Sends a short essay [The pathology and treatment of diseases of the ovaries (1874)] on which he would welcome CD’s opinion. Believes problems of pathology can be attacked by regarding them from "Darwinian" point of view.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Mar [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 178: 5
Summary:

Is preparing a paper on the umbilical cord ["On the anatomy of the umbilical cord", Proc. R. Soc. Lond. 23 (1875): 498–501; 24 (1876): 417–40] of which he sends a preliminary note [missing]. Believes spiral growth of the umbilical cord is important evidence of the descent of man; speculates on spiral growth in general.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Apr [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 178: 6
Summary:

Arrangements for a visit to Down.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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
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
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
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
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
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
From:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 June [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 178: 13
Summary:

An article on RLT’s lecture on insectivorous plants has appeared; the author adopts an anti-Darwinian attitude [see "Flower traps", Spectator 19 June 1875, pp. 784–5; RLT’s reply in Spectator 26 June 1875, pp. 816–17.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 July [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 178: 14
Summary:

Has read Insectivorous plants and is to review it for the Spectator.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 July [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 178: 15
Summary:

Sends a note on the ferment of the Nepenthes secretion, which he asks CD to forward to Nature if he thinks it worth while [see "Insectivorous plants", Nature 12 (1875): 251–2].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 July [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 178: 16
Summary:

Insectivorous plants: observations on the digestive fluid of Nepenthes.

Reproduction of plant by "parthenogenesis".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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
From:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Sept [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 178: 18
Summary:

RLT speculates on the "moral nature" of parental protection shown by humans and traces it back to its first occurrence in the animal world.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Oct 1875
Source of text:
DAR 178: 19
Summary:

Wishes CD to present RLT’s paper on insectivorous plants to the Royal Society.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Oct [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 178: 20
Summary:

Thanks CD for consenting to present his paper.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Nov [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 178: 21
Summary:

Composition of "Droserin" [see 10015].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project