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To Robert Damon   15 October 1877

Down, | Beckenham, Kent. | Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R.

Oct 15. 1877

Dear Sir,

It would be a great satisfaction to me to give you any information on the subject about which you write,—but I cannot do so. It seems incredible that mere contact should be poisonous, supposing the surface not to be abraided,1

Dear Sir | Yours faithfully | Ch. Darwin

LS

1
Damon had mentioned accounts of fatalities caused by handling the sea snail Conus geographus, and asked CD whether he could corroborate these reports (see letter from Robert Damon, 12 October 1877).

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-11185,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-11185