From Lawson Tait 16 August 1875
7, Great Charles St. | Birmingham.
Aug. 16 1875
My Dear Sir,
I cannot tell you how much your kind letter has gratified me.1
That the unopened pitchers of the Nepenthes’ do contain the ferment sometimes, is indisputable; and after all not more wonderful than that the gastric mucous membrane always contains pepsin, the amount being increased by the presence of food.2
The whole question wants very carefully going over, and it is my intention to give some time to it as soon as a run of ovariotomies is over with which I am now engaged.3
These cases are such a terrible strain that I am always unable to do anything else when I have a number. Then, I see my way to quite a book on tails, which will be more to interest the public, as I find my little paper on the cat has made quite a sensation.4
I trust you will take really a long rest. How you can do such work as you get through is to me a marvel. I stayed a day with Dr. Andrew Clark at his country place a short time ago & was delighted to hear him speak encouragingly of your health.5
Yours sincerely | Lawson Tait
Footnotes
Bibliography
Insectivorous plants. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1875.
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
Summary
Digestive fluid in insectivorous plants. RLT’s work on tails.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-10122
- From
- Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- Birmingham
- Source of text
- DAR 178: 17
- Physical description
- ALS 4pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 10122,” accessed on 20 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-10122.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 23