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
Footnotes
The year is established by the reference to L. Tait 1877 (see n. 2, below).
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.
Bibliography
Tait, Lawson. 1877. Diseases of women. London: Williams and Norgate.
Summary
Forwards a copy of his book Diseases of women [1877].
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-10999
- From
- Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- unstated
- Source of text
- DAR 178: 39
- Physical description
- 2pp †
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 10999,” accessed on 11 April 2021, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/DCP-LETT-10999.xml
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