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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Litchfield, H. E.
Date:
[16 December 1881]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 280
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
No summary available.
Explains he was not a member of the congress [7th International Medical Conference, August 1881], and hence it would be inappropriate to introduce his likeness into the correspondent’s composition.
Perchloride of mercury applied to his lawn destroyed thousands of earthworms, but ruined the grass.