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IN the last issue of NATURE (p. 394) I observe in an article upon Megascolides australis that a supposition is expressed that very large earthworms will be found to occur in South America as well as in other continents. It may be of a little interest to mention that I found near the town of Manaos, in Amazonia, in the year 1874, an earthworm that measured 30 inches in length by ¾ inch in greatest breadth. When found, in the early morning, it was quite fresh, though newly dead, being somewhat crushed near one end, probably by some passer-by in the darkness. Unfortunately the worm spoiled in the rum in which I attempted to preserve it.
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TRAIL, J. The Giant Earthworm of Gippsland. Nature 39, 437 (1889). https://doi.org/10.1038/039437b0
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