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DCP-LETT-8118A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Johnson
Date:
23 Dec 1871
Source of text:
Private collection
Summary:

Is unable to accept invitation to Shrewsbury. Is grateful for offer of assistance at Wroxeter.

The weight of dry earth cast up by worms is 161/10 tons per acre annually.

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Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8118B

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Lee
Date:
23 Dec [1871]
Source of text:
Kenneth W. Rendell (dealer) (1995)
Summary:

"I have now looked at both lots of specimens, & I think both are the variable L. anatifera.–– I have disarticulated the right-hand scutal valve in both & the umbonal teeth are plain in both … I have hardly any doubt that both are L. anatifera.––"

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