SC - Fw: [TY] Fruits From 'New World'
Decker, Terry D.
TerryD at Health.State.OK.US
Fri Apr 30 04:34:36 PDT 1999
> << John Evelyn says in his Diary (9 August 1661): "The famous Queen Pine
> brought from Barbados ....
> >>
> Question 1: Remembering that CNN is a modern innovation, and mass
> communication, well, wasn't, who was John Evelyn, and was he in a position
> to
> KNOW, for certain sure, that the one he reports on in his diary for that
> day
> WAS the first one? Random knowledge, especially before the last century
> or
> so, was possible.
>
>
> Walk in peace,
> Wolfmother
>
John Evelyn (1620 -1706) was an author and diarist and a founder of the
Royal Society. He wrote on a number of subjects including reforestation and
natural science. His diary, originally published in 1818, is a primary
source for historians researching the 17th Century.
Bear
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