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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Johnson
Date:
2 May [1872]
Source of text:
Torquay Museum Society (AR470)
Summary:

Thanks for notes on worm-castings. Amount of ammonia surprises CD. David Forbes asserts that published analysis of carbon in vegetable matter valueless. Suspects that worms search for food and do not blindly swallow earth.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Vivian
Date:
23 Aug [1872]
Source of text:
Torquay Museum Society (AR474)
Summary:

Thanks for valuable information [about worms?]. "The more I investigate the extreme amount of work effected, the more perplexed as yet I become."

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project