A762    Beagle Library:     Dampier, William. 1697. A new voyage round the world. London: James Knapton.   Text

very good water running into the Sea. Here the land is low, making a sadling between 2 small Hills. It is very rich Land, producing large tall Trees of many sorts; the Mold is black and deep, which I have always taken notice of to be a fat soil. About a mile from this Brook towards the N. E. the Wood land terminates. Here the Savannah land beings, and runs some leagues into the Country, making many small Hills and Dales. These Savannahs are not altogether clear of Trees, but are here and there

A762    Beagle Library:     Dampier, William. 1697. A new voyage round the world. London: James Knapton.   Text

small passage for Boats and Canoas. There are no more Islands on the North side, but 5 or 6 on the South side of the great Island. See the Table. The Mold of these Islands for the biggest part is blackish, and pretty deep; only the Hills are somewhat stony. The Eastern part of the biggest Island is sandy, yet all cloathed with Trees of divers sorts. The Trees do not grow so thick as I have seen them in some places, but they are generally large and tall, and fit for any uses. There is one sort of

A762    Beagle Library:     Dampier, William. 1697. A new voyage round the world. London: James Knapton.   Text

Islands and shoals lying scattered about it. We saw a high peeked Hill at the N. end: but the Land on the East side is low all along; for we cruized almost the length of it. The mold on this side is black and deep, and extraordinary fat and rich, [page] 44

A762    Beagle Library:     Dampier, William. 1697. A new voyage round the world. London: James Knapton.   Text

An. 1688. anchored at the N. W. end of it, in a small Bay, in 8 Fathom Water, not half Mile from the shore. The body of this Island is in 7 d. 30 m. North Lat. it is about twelve Leagues long, and three or four broad. The South-end of it is pretty high, with steep Cliffs against the Sea: The rest of the Island is low, flat, and even. The mold of it is black, and deep; and it is very well watered with small running Streams. It produceth abundance of tall Trees, fit for any uses: For the whole

A730    Book:     Pennant, Thomas. 1771. Synopsis of quadrupeds. Chester: J. Monk.   Text

XXXIV. MOLE. Long nose: upper jaw much longer than the lower. No ears. Fore feet very broad, with scarce any apparent legs before: hind feet small. 241. EUROPEAN. Talpa Agricola An. Subter. 490. Gesner quad. 931. Klein quad. 60. Talpa, the mole, mold-warp, or want. Raii syn. quad. 236. Kret. Rzaczinski Polon. 236. Scheer, Scheer-mauss, Maulwurf. Kramer Austr. 314. Talpa Europ us. T. caudata, pedibus pentadactylis. Lin. syst. 73. Mullvad, Surk. Faun. suec. No. 23. Br. Zool. I. 108. Talpa

A925.4    Beagle Library:     Burney, James. 1803-17. Chronological history of the voyages and discoveries in the South Sea or Pacific Ocean. 5 vols. London: printed by Luke Hansard, near Lincoln's-Inn Fields, and sold by G. and W. Nicol, bookseller to His Majesty, Pall-Mall, G. and J. Robinson, Paternoster-Row, J. Robson, New Bond-Street, T. Payne, Mew's-Gate, and Cadell and Davies, in the Strand. Volume 4 (1816)   Text

of the Easternmost Islands are rocky, hilly, and barren, producing neither tree, herb, nor grass; but only a green prickly shrub that grows 10 or 12 feet high, as big as a man's leg, and is full of sharp prickles in thick rows from top to bottom, without leaf or fruit. In some places by the sea side grow bushes of Burton wood (a sort of wood which grows in the West Indies) which is good firing. Some of the Westernmost of these Islands are nine or ten leagues long, have fertile land with mold deep

CUL-DAR63.65    Note:    [Undated]   The dry castings collected at Leith Hill on sq yard spread over yard wd   Text   Image

inch annually, or falling over cliff at bottom base of square yard. At cliff at base of sloping square acre, (which is standard given in other cases). Then would fall over 4840 x 2 2/5 cubic inches, which equals square feet of mol

A774.02    Beagle Library:     Flinders, Matthew. 1814. A voyage to Terra Australis undertaken for the purpose of completing the discovery of that vast country, and prosecuted in the years 1801, 1802, and 1805 in His Majesty's ship the Investigator. 2 vols. London: G. and W. Nicol. vol. 2.   Text

1804. January. February. for he accepted the proposition to accompany the officers for the sake of the walk, and in the hope of obtaining some intelligence. He found the poor Cumberland covered with blue mold within side, and many of the stores in a decaying state, no precautions having been taken to preserve her from the heat or the rains; the French inventory was afterwards brought to him to be signed, but he refused it with my approbation. This new proceeding seemed to bespeak the captain

A757    Beagle Library:     Conybeare, William Daniel and Phillips, William. 1822. Outlines of the geology of England and Wales, with an introductory compendium of the general principles of that science, and comparative views of the structure of foreign countries. London: William Phillips.   Text

, Horn silver (Qu.) and native, refined on the spot. Wales. There are several lead smelting houses in Flint and Denbighshire (reverberatory furnaces). Lord Grovesnor's, M. Roskill's, and others near Holywell. Mr. Jones near Mold, Messrs. Hunt Co. at Minera. Some smelt their own ores, and others purchase of the miner. Very little silver extracted. Scotland I do not know much about, but believe the ores are smelted at Lead Hills. [page] 35

A805    Beagle Library:     Mackintosh, James. 1830. The history of England. London: Lardner (Lardner's Cabinet Cyclopaedia). vol. 1.   Text

most of all paid court to his English subjects by wedding Maud, or Mold, daughter of Malcolm king of Scots, and of Margaret the good queen, the relation of king Edward, and of the right kingly kin of England. * His nuptials with this beautiful lady were solemnized by the hand of Anselm, who, at the same time, consecrated and crowned the queen, three months after the coronation of her husband. So general was the confidence in the restoration of the native institutions, that it induced a private

A827    Beagle Library:     Seoane, Mateo. 1831. Neuman and Baretti's dictionary of the Spanish and English Languages. 5th ed. 2 vols. London: n.p. Volume 1: Spanish and English.   Text

measure wine. MOL MOLA MOLA-MATRIZ, sf. 1. Mole, a formless concretion of extra vasated blood which grows into a kind of flesh in the uterus. Mola, Barley, flour mixed with salt and used in sacrifices. MOL DA, sf. Quantity of colours ground at once. MOL R, a. Belonging to a millstone, or any other thing fit for grinding, as the teeth. MOLD R, va. To mould. V. Amoldar. M LDE, sm. Mould, the matrix in which any thing is cast or receives its form; pattern, model. De molde, In print, printed, or

A900    Beagle Library:     De La Beche, Henry Thomas. 1834. Researches in theoretical geology. London: Charles Knight   Text   PDF

the mines occur, and even on the peculiar geological circumstances in each mine in the same district. He has observed that in carboniferous limestone districts the percolation of rain-water is particularly rapid, and such that a heavy fall of rain will overpower the machinery sufficient for ordinary drainage. He has known instances where a heavy fall of rain has produced within three or four hours so great an increase in the water of two mines, Pent y Buarth and Cathole, on the Mold mountain

CUL-DAR63-65    Note:    1870--1882   [Notes on worms for Earthworms, including (1) castings; (2) furrows & ploughed land; (3) experiments at different locales etc.]   Text   Image

inch annually, or falling over cliff at bottom base of square yard. At cliff at base of sloping square acre, (which is standard given in other cases). Then would fall over 4840 x 2 2/5 cubic inches, which equals square feet of mold [CUL-DAR63.67_001

CUL-DAR63-65    Note:    1870--1882   [Notes on worms for Earthworms, including (1) castings; (2) furrows & ploughed land; (3) experiments at different locales etc.]   Text   Image

Sep 24th 9am — Lime leaves which had been buried in damp earth since 4pm Sep 15. Neither old nor young discoloured — They were examined without being put in alcohol, simply boiled in dilute glycerine lots of starch in all guard-cells in both leaves Another pair, old young, buried at same time in the sand pot are much discoloured. The young one quite brown rotten coming to pieces at a touch. The older one black yellow in patches with mold appearing The green parts have lots of starch. But many

A1952    Review:     Anon. 1877. [On the formation of mould]. The agricultural value of worms. Scientific American (29 September): 193.   Text   PDF

mold. In order to ascertain the precise part taken by the worm in making this vegetable mold, two worms were placed in a glass vessel filled with sand, on the surface of which was spread a layer of fallen leaves. The worms set to work at once, and after about six weeks the surface of the sand was found to be covered with a layer of mold nearly half an inch deep, while many leaves had been carried to a depth of three inches. Worm tubes ran in all directions through the sand; some were quite fresh

A1838    Review:     Anon. 1881. [Review of Earthworms]. The usefulness of the worm. Chicago Daily Tribune (25 October): 4.   Text   PDF

praise for the worm, but the statements which he makes are so forcible and multitudinous that it is impossible to resist the conviction that he is correct, and that henceforward we must acknowledge the worm as one of our greatest benefactors, and accept it as a high compliment when the pulpit compares us to these lowly toilers. Mr. Darwin commences his work with a declaration of its purpose─namely: to show the share which worms have taken in the formation of the layer of vegetable mold which

A1324    Review:     Anon. 1882. [Review of Earthworms] What man owes to Earth-worms. Sunday Morning Call (12 February): 6.   Text   PDF

The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online [page] 6 Dr. Charles Darwin, whose Natural Selection and Descent of Man have revolutionized the biological studies of the present generation, has published a book which is destined to create a profound as well as an amusing impression. It is entitled ''Vegetable Mold and Earth-Worms, and it goes to prove that this wriggling, slimy little creature is one of the most useful and beneficent of any of the various forms of life inhabiting the globe. The

A110    Review:     Anon. 1882. [Review of] Darwin's Formation of Vegetable Mold Through the Action of Worms. The American Naturalist 16(6) (June) 499-500.   Text   Image

Anon. 1882. [Review of] Darwin's Formation of Vegetable Mold Through the Action of Worms. The American Naturalist 16(6) (June) 499-500. [page] 499 DARWIN'S FORMATION OF VEGETABLE MOLD THROUGH THE ACTION OF WORMS.1 This, the last of Mr. Darwin's works, is characterized by the same patient observation, ingenuity in methods of research, cautious spirit and powers of generalization, which may be seen in his more important works. The startling conclusions of this book are gradually approached, and

A106    Periodical contribution:     Wallace, A. R. 1883. The Debt of Science to Darwin. Century Magazine 25, 3 January: 420-432.   Text   Image   PDF

embodying much original research, in 1880; and his remarkable little book on Earthworms in 1881. This last work is highly characteristic of the author. In 1837 he had contributed to the Geological Society a short paper on the formation of vegetable mold by the agency of worms. For more than forty years this subject of his early studies was kept in view; experiments were made, in one case involving the keeping a field untouched for thirty years,—and every opportunity was taken of collecting

A1853    Review:     Lyndon, Louise. 1894. [Review of Earthworms]. Darwin's earthworms: A great man's interesting and instructive experiments. Inter-Ocean (4 November): 5-6.   Text   PDF

literary work, the charm of homely industry and fascinating research delightfully recorded. The introduction speaks of the thin layer of mold on the earth's surface, the dirt commonly supposed to be much deeper than it is, as being constantly altered and added to by the action of earthworms. Astonishing statistics are given concerning the number of them to the square foot in common soil, and the amount of earth [page]

A288    Pamphlet:     Hovey, Edmund Otis ed. 1909. Darwin memorial celebration. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 19, no. 1, Part 1 (31 July): 1-40.   Text

which prevailed in that institution had no reference to the discovery of the exceptional man. The one ceaseless effort of his schoolmasters was to crowd him into the common mold. Receiving no sympathy and little assistance from those who should have been the guides and advisers of his boyhood, he developed a strong taste for long solitary walks and cultivated the habit of stealing time for more or less surreptitious collecting in several departments of natural history. [page] 1

F1827    Periodical contribution:     Porter, D.M. 1987. Darwin's notes on Beagle plants. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Historical Series. vol. 14(2): 145-233.   Text   Image   PDF

collected are not included in the Plant Notes, probably because they did not survive to be sent to Henslow, or they did not survive the trip back to England. An example of the latter is a collection of the mold Mucor (Mucoraceae), of which Henslow wrote to Darwin on 21 January 1833: 'For goodness sake what is No. 223 it looks like the remains of an electric explosion, a mere mass of soot something very curious I daresay ' (Burkhardt Smith, 1985b: 294). Of this collection, Darwin wrote in the

A341    Periodical contribution:     Pemberton, S. George and Robert W. Frey. 1990. Darwin on worms: the advent of experimental neoichnology. Ichnos 1: 65-71.   Text   Image

Kettlewell, 1965). By November 1837, Darwin had read a paper On the formation of mould before the Geological Society in which he commented on his observations on three pastures. Darwin concluded that surface objects were being buried by the generation of worm castings that were continually brought to the surface, resulting in a layer of mold or soil. This paper was actually published twice (Darwin, 1838, 1840), although the two drafts are not identical. The first was merely a report on Darwin's lecture