To Lawson Tait 4 June [1875]
Summary
CD’s observations on the power of movement and transmission of motor impulses in plants. If RLT succeeds with the tails of mice, it will be "a beautiful little discovery"; CD will enjoy it the more "because some German sneered at natural selection and instanced the tail of the mouse" [see 10013].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait |
| Date: | 4 June [1875] |
| Classmark: | Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections DC AL 1/19) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10009 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … principles of plants. [Read 22 May 1879. ] Proceedings of …
To Lawson Tait 13 June [1875]
Summary
RLT’s observations come too late, as CD’s book on Droseraceae has been printed.
Reports on his observations of ferment in secretions in Drosera rotundifolia and Drosophyllum.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait |
| Date: | 13 June [1875] |
| Classmark: | DAR 221.5: 26 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10017 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … see Correspondence vol. 22, letter to W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, …
To Lawson Tait 17 [July 1875]
Summary
Informs RLT of J. D. Hooker’s work on Nepenthes ["Nepenthaceae, Cytinaceae", in Prodromus systematis naturalis regni vegetabilis by A. P. de Candolle (1873), 17: 90–116].
Has asked JDH to try secretions of pitchers that had caught no insects.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait |
| Date: | 17 [July 1875] |
| Classmark: | DAR 221.5: 27 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10023 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … see Correspondence vol. 22, letter to D. F. Nevill, 7 …
From Francis Darwin to Lawson Tait 22 July [1875]
Summary
CD sends words that he is too busy to work on the Drosera RLT has sent. CD also regrets that the fluid on virgin pitchers of Nepenthes was not tested with white of egg. Until that is done, he doubts whether physiologists would admit the presence of the ferment.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait |
| Date: | 22 July [1875] |
| Classmark: | DAR 221.5: 29 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10087 |
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Darwin, Francis | (1) |
| Tait, Lawson | (4) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Darwin, Francis | (1) |
