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SOME years ago, during an expedition to the St. Elias Mountains on the Alaska–Yukon boundary, I found some oligochaetous annelids, which are known to occur throughout the western coastal ranges of North America, and are usually referred to as ‘glacier-worms’ or ‘ice-worms’1. In my report of this find I asked for any information that might be available upon the occurrence and distribution in general of species of the particular genus, Mesenchytraeus, to which these worms belong. However, not a single reply has since been received in answer to that inquiry.
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ODELL, N. So-called ‘Glacier-Worms’ in New Zealand. Nature 177, 534 (1956). https://doi.org/10.1038/177534a0
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