From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Hilary Howard Leng
Date:
26 Feb 1882
Source of text:
St George’s College Library, Quilmes, Argentina (tipped into a copy of Earthworms that belonged to Leng)
Summary:
CD cannot answer his question concerning the death of earthworms. The usual cause is through parasitic larva of a fly. Worms are susceptible to certain poisons from plants.
Glad his book [Earthworms] has interested HHL.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project