From:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Feb 1877
Source of text:
DAR 178: 38
Summary:
Wants to know how to obtain The thoughts of Marcus Aurelius, mentioned in Descent [1: 106].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Wants to know how to obtain The thoughts of Marcus Aurelius, mentioned in Descent [1: 106].
Forwards a copy of his book Diseases of women [1877].
Thanks RLT for his work, Diseases of women.
CD is also interested by RLT’s letter reporting a cat rearing chickens. "What a wonderful instinct is the maternal one."
CD declines to write for RLT’s new journal. He is not fitted for the work and dislikes it particularly. It costs loss of time as he "cannot change with ease from one job to another".
Speculation on the process by which tails have been lost; believes he has evidence from man that it is related to spina bifida.