From Lawson Tait 16 June [1875]1
7, Great Charles St. | Birmingham.
June 16
My Dear Sir,
Thanks for your letter just received.2
Your courtesy, I fear, must lead you into troublesome correspondences. I wait for your book with inexpressible impatience, and you will see in the paper I send that I guard myself as being liable to your correction.3
I gave a rough paper on the subject at our meeting last night, because Dr. Braithwaite of London took the trouble to come down a few weeks ago to deny all the facts in connection with the Droseraceae.4 This will account for many liberties I have taken with your name. The report is not very accurate but it is substantially so.
I shall develop my paper into a book but I shall wait till yours has appeared that I may cover myself with your mantle.5
Meantime I shall go over absorption again
Yours faithfully | Lawson Tait
Please do not acknowledge this unless you have fault to find with any thing I may have said
CD annotations
Footnotes
Bibliography
Insectivorous plants. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1875.
Tait, Lawson. 1879–80. Notes on the structures of pitcher plants. Midland Naturalist 2 (1879): 265–8, 295–7; 3 (1880): 5–8, 58–62.
Tait, Lawson. 1879. Researches on the digestive principles of plants. [Read 22 May 1879.] Proceedings of the Birmingham Philosophical Society 1 (1876–9) pt 2: 125–39.
Summary
Is waiting impatiently for the appearance of CD’s book [Insectivorous plants].
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-10020
- From
- Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- Birmingham
- Source of text
- DAR 178: 11
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp †
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 10020,” accessed on 23 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-10020.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 23