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IN some interesting remarks upon this subject (NATURE, pp. 427, 489), the Rev. Hilderic Friend suggests—and I believe he is correct in assuming for the first time—that the alluvial mud of such a river as the Nile derives its fertility, not from the nature of the sediment itself, as usually supposed, nor entirely from bacteria, but from the multitudinous remains of annelids that live in the mud.
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HORWOOD, A. Ooze and Irrigation. Nature 84, 40 (1910). https://doi.org/10.1038/084040a0
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