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From Lawson Tait   19 July [1875]1

7, Great Charles St. | Birmingham.

July 19

My Dear Sir,

I have succeeded in separating the ferment of the Nepenthe secretion.2

I think the enclosed note may interest you; and if you think it worth publishing will you kindly forward it to “Nature” as Mr. Lockyer has asked me for something on the subject.3

Please don’t trouble to acknowledge it if it is satisfactory.

Yours faithfully, | Lawson Tait

Footnotes

The year is established by the reference to Tate’s note in Nature (see n. 3, below).
On Tait’s work on the tropical pitcher-plant, Nepenthes, see the letter from Lawson Tait, 15 July [1875] and n. 5.
Tait’s note on insectivorous plants was published in Nature, 29 July 1875, pp. 251–2. Joseph Norman Lockyer was the editor of Nature.

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].

Letter details

Letter no.
DCP-LETT-10078
From
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
To
Charles Robert Darwin
Sent from
Birmingham
Source of text
DAR 178: 15
Physical description
ALS 2pp

Please cite as

Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 10078,” accessed on 28 March 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-10078.xml

Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 23

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