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To J. F. Galbraith   11 November 1881

Down, | Beckenham, Kent. | (Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R.)

November 11 th. 1881

Dear Sir

I thank you for your kindness in having written me so long a letter; but I can assure you that there is not a naturalist in the world who would credit that germinating seeds could be developed into animals of any kind— There was plenty of time & means for the indefinite multiplication of innumerable kinds of animals in the cask.—1

Dear Sir | Yours faithfully | Ch. Darwin

1
Galbraith had found worms in a barrel of wheat (see letter from J. F. Galbraith, 20 October 1881).

Manuscript Alterations and Comments

0.1 (Railway … S.E.R.)] parentheses added
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