From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Gardeners’ Chronicle
Date:
[27 Mar 1844]
Source of text:
Gardeners’ Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette , no. 14, 6 April 1844, p. 218
Summary:
Writes to correct a statement made in his 1837 paper "On the formation of mould" [Collected papers 1: 49–53]. He should have said that marl was put on the field 30 years ago, not 80. Observations made on a visit to the field showed that worms had undermined the marl spread on the field at a faster rate than previously reported.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project