From Lawson Tait   11 October 1875

7, Great Charles St. | Birmingham.

Oct 11 1875

My Dear Sir,

I have a short paper in hand on “The glandular structure and its function in pitcher plants”

Would you favour me by presenting it to the Royal Society for me?1 I would ask Dr. Hooker,2 but I do not know him. I am going over the question of the digestion principle but am far from being settled about it. Its presence is essential, but the presence of the acid is far more important.

Yours faithfully, | Lawson Tait

CD annotations

Top of letter: ‘(Please return)’ red crayon
1
Tait’s paper was not published by the Royal Society of London. CD returned it to Tait after it was rejected (see Correspondence vol. 24, letter to Lawson Tait, 24 April 1876). Tait later published two papers, possibly using some of the material from the paper he had sent to CD (see letter from Lawson Tait, 16 June [1875] and n. 5).

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-10190,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-10190