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IN the summer of 1890, during my researches into the Vermes of Cumberland, I discovered a species of earthworm which proved to be new to Britain (Lumbricus Eiseni, Levinsen). As I have recently had the good fortune to receive specimens of the same worm from another part of the country, it seems desirable to place the same on record. A correspondent writes from Gloucestershire as follows:—
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FRIEND, H. A Rare British Earthworm. Nature 45, 365–366 (1892). https://doi.org/10.1038/045365e0
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