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I BEG to refer your correspondent “N. E. P.,” on this subject, to my “Memoir of the Late Professor Henslow,” p. 207, where I have given the results of copious experiments made by him in reference to the vitality of seeds, as well as the results of a close investigation of the whole subject by himself, Dr. Daubeny, and others—being a Committee appointed for the purpose in 1840 by the British Association; all tending to show that no seeds retain their vitality for much more than forty years, and very few for anything like so long, and throwing utter discredit upon often-received statements as to the long-retained vitality of the so-called mummy-wheat found in the catacombs of Egypt.
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BLOMEFIELD, L. [Letters to Editor]. Nature 35, 463 (1887). https://doi.org/10.1038/035463d0
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