To Lawson Tait 10 September [1875]
Summary
CD gives a few instances of various animals (starfish, earwigs, spiders) that take charge of their young.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait |
Date: | 10 Sept [1875] |
Classmark: | Shrewsbury School, Taylor Library |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10154 |
To Lawson Tait 15 August [1875]
Summary
Thanks him for his kind review of Insectivorous plants in the Spectator. Disputes Tait’s report of a Nepenthes that trapped a fly but did not digest it.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait |
Date: | 15 Aug [1875] |
Classmark: | Leeds University Library Special Collections (Brotherton Collection, tipped into Insectivorous plants (1875): MS Misc. Letters 2) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10177F |
From Lawson Tait 11 October 1875
Summary
Wishes CD to present RLT’s paper on insectivorous plants to the Royal Society.
Author: | Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 11 Oct 1875 |
Classmark: | DAR 178: 19 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10190 |
To Lawson Tait 14 October [1875]
Summary
Will be happy to present RLT’s paper on Nepenthes to Royal Society.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait |
Date: | 14 Oct [1875] |
Classmark: | Department of Special Collections, Kenneth Spencer Research Library, University of Kansas (MS 331 box 1 folder 11) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10199 |
From Lawson Tait 23 October [1875]
Summary
Thanks CD for consenting to present his paper.
Author: | Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 23 Oct [1875] |
Classmark: | DAR 178: 20 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10217 |
From Lawson Tait 6 November [1875]
Summary
Composition of "Droserin" [see 10015].
Author: | Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 Nov [1875] |
Classmark: | DAR 178: 21 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10244 |
From Lawson Tait 16 November [1875]
Summary
Has CD ever come across Dischidia rafflesiana?
Author: | Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 Nov [1875] |
Classmark: | DAR 178: 22 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10261 |
From Lawson Tait 16 November [1875]
Summary
Has extracted a highly deliquescent substance from digestive secretion of insectivorous plants.
Author: | Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 Nov [1875] |
Classmark: | DAR 178: 23 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10262 |
From Lawson Tait 20 November [1875]
Summary
His paper [for Royal Society] is completed; would CD like to read it?
Author: | Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20 Nov [1875] |
Classmark: | DAR 178: 24 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10268 |
From Lawson Tait 23 November [1875]
Summary
RLT’s paper will be sent to CD. Will CD notify him of any serious defects?
Author: | Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 23 Nov [1875] |
Classmark: | DAR 178: 26 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10274 |
From Lawson Tait 25 November [1875]
Summary
RLT’s paper on insectivorous plants is being copied.
Author: | Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 25 Nov [1875] |
Classmark: | DAR 178: 25 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10277 |
To Lawson Tait 27 November [1875]
Summary
Because CD has been unwell, he has not read RLT’s paper carefully, but it seems an important contribution to science. Hopes RLT’s chemical observations will be confirmed. It seems a great anomaly that two substances with an acid should be requisite for digestion.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait |
Date: | 27 Nov [1875] |
Classmark: | DAR 221.5: 30 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10280 |
From Lawson Tait 29 November [1875]
Summary
RLT’s insectivorous plants paper.
The success of a recent lecture.
Author: | Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 29 Nov [1875] |
Classmark: | DAR 178: 27 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10281 |
To Lawson Tait 1 December [1875]
Summary
Abstract sent to the Royal Society. It seems to CD "uncommonly clear and well-done".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait |
Date: | 1 Dec [1875] |
Classmark: | Josh B. Rosenblum (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10284 |
From Lawson Tait 21 February 1876
Summary
RLT to review 2d ed. of Variation and write an article on Pangenesis.
Discussion of "Survival of the Fittest".
Author: | Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 21 Feb 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 178: 28–9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10405 |
To Lawson Tait 22 February [1876]
Summary
Herbert Spencer invented the term "survival of the fittest". CD used it but found "natural selection" more convenient.
He has often spoken of natural selection’s destruction of individuals which do not come up to "proper standards of structure", which comes to nearly the same thing as RLT’s suggested distinction.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait |
Date: | 22 Feb [1876] |
Classmark: | Randall House, Santa Barbara (dealers) (Catalogue XXV, 1993) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10406 |
From Lawson Tait 1 March 1876
Summary
Regrowth of an amputated extra thumb.
Author: | Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 Mar 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 178: 30 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10412 |
To Lawson Tait 2 March 1876
Summary
Thanks RLT for his letter. CD took much trouble over his two cases [regrowth of amputated supernumerary digits, in Variation] but the evidence was shaky.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait |
Date: | 2 Mar 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 147: 527 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10414 |
To Lawson Tait 25 March [1876]
Summary
RLT’s two articles in Spectator [4 Mar and 25 Mar 1876] greatly honour CD.
Tait has made a good point about "Survival of the Fittest".
Dr Rudinger’s extensive inquiries show that all eminent German surgeons are unanimous about non-growth of extra digit after amputation.
J. Kollmann has written regretting CD has given up atavism and extra digits [in 2d ed. of Variation]; gives new evidence of a rudimentary sixth digit in batrachians.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait |
Date: | 25 Mar [1876] |
Classmark: | DAR 221.5: 33 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10428 |
From Lawson Tait 26 March [1876]
Summary
Cat born tailless as a consequence of a spina bifida.
Author: | Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 26 Mar [1876] |
Classmark: | DAR 178: 31 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10429 |
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