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G. Krefft of Sydney, to whom I applied, after making inquiries from gardeners and others, and from his own observations, informs me that their castings abound. He sent me some collected after heavy rain, and they consisted of little pellets, about 0.15 inch in diameter; and the blackened sandy earth of which they were formed still cohered with considerable tenacity. The late Mr.
Krefft took away the breath of scientific Europe by informing it that he had found the extinct ganoid swimming about as large as life, and six feet long, without the faintest consciousness of its own scientific importance, in a river in Queensland at the present day.
Believe me, dear Darwin, yours very faithfully, Down, Beckenham, Kent. July 9. My dear Wallace, Dr. G. Krefft has sent me the enclosed from Sydney. I hope that the world goes well with you. Do not trouble yourself by acknowledging this. Ever yours,
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