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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
[16 November 1881]
Source of text:
DAR 210.3: 31
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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Would be grateful for some Euphorbia species for examination of the roots. "The subject is by no means worth all the labour I am bestowing on it, but I cannot bear to be beaten."
Elaborates on the theories propounded in his recently published work [Earthworms], describing the reproductive system of worms and the absorption of organic matter in the soil. [See 13483.]