To Albert Günther 14 June [1873]
Down, | Beckenham, Kent.
June 14th
Dear Günther
I observed your statement in the Annals, but I am not the less obliged to you for informing me.—1 Sidney Smith used to tell Francis Horner that he looked so good a man that he might commit any crime & no Jury would convict him;2 & I feel the same about your accuracy; you might make half-a-dozen slips & I shd. always maintain that you were the most accurate of men.— No one can be safe from so trifling an error as that about the frogs.—
I hope Phrynosoma will flourish; do you keep it in a greenhouse or Hot-house; I observe that such places suit toads excellently; but as I write it occurs to me (?) that Phrynosoma is a Lizard— I never heard of the odd statement which you make about its eyes.—3
Yours most sincerely | Ch. Darwin
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
Thanks AG for information [unspecified]; so trifling an error will not alter his opinion that AG is "the most accurate of men".
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-8943
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Shrewsbury School, Taylor Library (37)
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 8943,” accessed on 23 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-8943.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 21