From Lawson Tait 27 March [1876]
Summary
Regrowth of amputated digits is a capacity possessed by the new-born but rapidly lost.
Author: | Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 27 Mar [1876] |
Classmark: | DAR 178: 32 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10431 |
To Lawson Tait 28 March 1876
Summary
James Paget’s scepticism about regrowth of digits. Suggests RLT experiment with amputation of digits, both extra and normal, of kittens and fowls. Fears they will fail to regrow, but, if regrowth is proved, it will be an important discovery.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait |
Date: | 28 Mar 1876 |
Classmark: | Roy Davids Ltd (dealer) (1996) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10434 |
To Lawson Tait 24 April 1876
Summary
The Royal Society have returned RLT’s Nepenthes paper and will not have it read because of unfavourable reports from referees.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait |
Date: | 24 Apr 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 202: 84 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10470 |
From Lawson Tait 25 April [1876]
Summary
Apologises for placing CD in the objectionable position of sponsor for a rejected paper. RLT has gone over old ground in ignorance.
Author: | Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 25 Apr [1876] |
Classmark: | DAR 178: 33 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10473 |
To Lawson Tait 29 April [1876]
Summary
Sends Thiselton-Dyer’s suggestions for references to Nepenthes,
and gives his opinion on what will influence the Royal Society’s Council in considering RLT’s candidacy.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait |
Date: | 29 Apr [1876] |
Classmark: | DAR 221.5: 36 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10484 |
To Lawson Tait 5 May 1876
Summary
CD sends the gist of an extremely negative report from the [Royal Society’s] physiological referee on the value of RLT’s modifications of Brücke’s process for isolating pepsin [see 10470].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait |
Date: | 5 May 1876 |
Classmark: | Shrewsbury School, Taylor Library |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10497 |
From Lawson Tait 4 August [1876]
Summary
Wishes to make CD an Honorary Member of the Birmingham Natural History Society.
RLT has attempted [in a paper] to apply evolution to moral life.
Author: | Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 4 Aug [1876] |
Classmark: | DAR 178: 34 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10570 |
To Lawson Tait 6 August 1876
Summary
CD accepts membership in the Birmingham Natural History Society.
Thanks RLT for article. CD cannot quite agree that "under a theological point of view, the origin of evil is explained by survival".
Is glad RLT has not given up polydactylism.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait |
Date: | 6 Aug 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 221.5: 35 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10571 |
From Lawson Tait 8 August 1876
Summary
Proposes to work on the origin of diseases; is going to study syphilis.
Author: | Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 Aug 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 178: 35 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10574 |
From Lawson Tait 16 January 1877
Summary
Is writing Diseases of women [1877]; sends some proof-sheets for criticism.
Author: | Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 Jan 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 178: 36 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10795 |
To Lawson Tait 17 January [1877]
Summary
CD has only a trifling point to make in criticism [of RLT’s excerpt from Diseases of women]: he believes "the high value of well-bred males is due to their transmitting their good qualities to a far greater number of offspring than can the female".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait |
Date: | 17 Jan [1877] |
Classmark: | DAR 221.5: 37 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10800 |
From Lawson Tait 14 February 1877
Summary
Sends another extract [from Diseases of women (1877)].
Has reviewed Cross and self-fertilisation in the Spectator.
Author: | Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 14 Feb 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 178: 37 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10844 |
From Lawson Tait 25 February 1877
Summary
Wants to know how to obtain The thoughts of Marcus Aurelius, mentioned in Descent [1: 106].
Author: | Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 25 Feb 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 178: 38 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10868 |
From Lawson Tait 13 June [1877]
Summary
Forwards a copy of his book Diseases of women [1877].
Author: | Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 June [1877] |
Classmark: | DAR 178: 39 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10999 |
To Lawson Tait 15 June [1877]
Summary
Thanks RLT for his work, Diseases of women.
CD is also interested by RLT’s letter reporting a cat rearing chickens. "What a wonderful instinct is the maternal one."
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait |
Date: | 15 June [1877] |
Classmark: | DAR 221.5: 39 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11001 |
To Lawson Tait 13 November [1877]
Summary
CD declines to write for RLT’s new journal. He is not fitted for the work and dislikes it particularly. It costs loss of time as he "cannot change with ease from one job to another".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait |
Date: | 13 Nov [1877] |
Classmark: | DAR 221.5: 40 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11235 |
From Lawson Tait 31 December [1877]
Summary
Speculation on the process by which tails have been lost; believes he has evidence from man that it is related to spina bifida.
Author: | Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 31 Dec [1877] |
Classmark: | DAR 178: 40 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11297 |
From Lawson Tait 12 January 1880
Summary
Plans a "Darwin Festival" to celebrate CD’s birthday.
Author: | Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 Jan 1880 |
Classmark: | DAR 178: 41 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12418 |
To Lawson Tait 13 January 1880
Summary
The honour RLT proposes [Darwin Festival] is a great one, "but would it not be better to wait until I am in my grave?"
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait |
Date: | 13 Jan 1880 |
Classmark: | Shrewsbury School, Taylor Library |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12420 |
To Lawson Tait 15 January [1880]
Summary
Sends copy of Kosmos [containing Krause’s article on Erasmus Darwin].
Believes he can spare an Erasmus Darwin letter.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait |
Date: | 15 Jan [1880] |
Classmark: | DAR 221.5: 41 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12425 |
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