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Re: Port Orford Meteorite Hoax - Part 3 of 6
Greetings Al,
Please tell us more!
Larry
almitt wrote:
> >>Although his early exploring trips and specimen collecting provided at
> least a beginning for a natural history of the Pacific Northwest, Evans
> clearly was not a highly regarded<<
>
> Although I am familiar with Plotkin's and Roy Clark's report on the Port
> Orford meteorite, I am not in full agreement that John Evan's was the fool
> he is made out to be nor is he a unhighly regarded geolgest or scientist.
> Rather I will offer some information (providing references) that he was VERY
> highly regarded in the scientific circles of his time, by his boss and by
> his peers. Read on.
>
> First off it is not just John Evans but Dr. John Evans. From the American
> Philosphical Society, Volume 103, Number 3, June 1959.
>
> "In 1847 Dr. David Dale Owen who was appointted United States Geologist to
> conduct a geological survey of Wisconsin, Iowa, Minnesota, and part of
> Nebraska chose as sub-agents Dr. John Evans and Dr. B.F. Shumard. The Work
> of Evans soon attracted the attention of Owen so that great confidence was
> placed in his ability.
>
> "He has credit of having been the first scientific explorer who visted those
> vast cemetaries of extinct animals which have excited so much interest
> amoung scientific men."
>
> Dr. Owen had this to say about Dr. Evans of the Bad Lands expedition: "In
> addition to his scientific duties, Dr. Evans had almost exclusive, control
> of the business department of Dr. Ownes survey, which of itself involved an
> immense deal of labor. The satisfactory manor in which he discharged these
> onerous duties, often in the midst of dishearting privations and even
> danger, commanded the highest esteem and confidence of Dr. Owen and his
> associates, while his goodness of heart, uniform courtesty, and
> self-sacrificing disposition, secured to him their warmest friendship."
>
> I could go on and on but feel this is enough for the time being to at least
> refute some of the negative publishes items about Dr. John Evans in regards
> to the Port Orford Mystory who seem most highly regarded by his boss (which
> by the way was no push over) and his colleges at that time. I will try to
> post more if interst exists on this "hoax" and try to shed some light on
> some discrepancies I have with the mystery but certainly not with Dr. John
> Evans.
>
> --AL Mitterling
>
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