From John Evans 14 December 1868
Nash Mills, | Hemel Hempsted.
Decr. 14. 1868
My dear Sir
I believe that you are quite right as to the conical objects which I took to be fungi not being organic—1 I have not sent any to Mr Berkeley2 as I find on testing them by burning that they consist principally of lead— I was so deceived by their appearance, when our foreman brought them to me, that I sent them to you at once without due examination.3 I must therefore apologize for having needlessly troubled you and must take care to trust less to appearances in future
Believe me My dear Sir | Yours very faithfully | John Evans
Charles Darwin Esqre F.R.S.
Footnotes
Bibliography
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
Apologises; CD is correct: the object his foreman found is not organic.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-6503
- From
- John Evans
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- Hemel Hempstead
- Source of text
- DAR 163: 36
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 6503,” accessed on 18 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-6503.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 16
