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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Johann Louis Gerard (Gerard) Krefft
Date:
[Sept 1873]
Source of text:
Mitchell Library, Sydney (MLMSS 5828); Smithsonian Libraries (Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology MSS 405 A Gift of the Burndy Library)
Summary:

Thanks for observations on worm-castings and for JLGK’s amusing letter.

Wants to know whether species of Eucalyptus are dichogamous. [The P.S. on Eucalyptus may be part of another letter to another correspondent.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Johann Louis Gerard (Gerard) Krefft
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Sept 1873
Source of text:
DAR 169: 120
Summary:

Proud of CD’s good opinion of him. He worked in a merchant’s office in Germany for many years. Emigrated to Australia as a gold-digger and took up natural history after he was 30.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project