From Nicolai Krohn 16 December 1881
Summary
Perchloride of mercury applied to his lawn destroyed thousands of earthworms, but ruined the grass.
| Author: | Nicolai Krohn |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 16 Dec 1881 |
| Classmark: | DAR 169: 124 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13555 |
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- … 30 Gallons of cold water. — I then watered the lawn and the effect was simply amazing No sooner had I thrown the water on when,—before even the watering can was emptied,—the worms appeared. — They were crawling out by the hundreds and from their wriggling & turning about I must conclude that they were in great agony. I gave the plot of ground a watering from time to time during three weeks or so and, from a computation I made, I must have picked up something like 8000 worms—which is about 10 …
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| letter | (1) |
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| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
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| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Krohn, Nicolai | (1) |
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| 1881 | (1) |
