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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.

1
No earlier correspondence on these objects has been found.
3
The foreman has not been identified. Evans was a partner in the paper-making firm, John Dickinson & Co. (ODNB).

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-6503,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-6503