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THE interest which my former letter has aroused (NATURE, June 9) induces me to offer a few further remarks. For a hundred years it was usually thought that all our earthworms were of one kind, and the term Lumbricus terrestris was glibly used. Thanks to the help I have received from curators, gardeners, and nature-lovers at Kew, Chelsea, Oxford, Cambridge, Edinburgh, and elsewhere, my list of British Lumbrici now stands at nearly forty species, belonging to upwards of half-a-dozen genera.
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FRIEND, H. Ooze and Irrigation. Nature 83, 489 (1910). https://doi.org/10.1038/083489b0
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