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From John Crawfurd to E. A. Darwin   7 August 1863

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Forwards an enclosure for CD, at Archdeacon John Sinclair’s request [extract from J. Sinclair’s Life and works of Sir John Sinclair (1837) 2: 83–5], showing how Dr Erasmus Darwin anticipated Justus von Liebig [in recognising the importance of phosphorus-rich manures].

Author:  John Crawfurd
Addressee:  Erasmus Alvey Darwin
Date:  7 Aug 1863
Classmark:  DAR 161: 237, 237/1
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4880