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From Lawson Tait   13 June [1877]1

June 13

My Dear Sir,

I take the liberty of forwarding to you a copy of my book on Diseases of Women. If you will look in the index under your name you will see why I send it. I look upon your discovery as the key to an immense deal in medicine2

Yours truly, | Lawson Tait

1
The year is established by the reference to L. Tait 1877 (see n. 2, below).
2
Tait remarked on the importance of CD’s views on the evolution of sexual instincts in L. Tait 1877, p. 48; the index also includes references to CD on hermaphroditism (p. 200) and pangenesis (p. 232). See also letter from Lawson Tait, 15 January 1877 and nn. 1 and 2.

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-10999,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-10999