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The 'wormstone' at Down House. Darwin used the original to measure the sinking of the stone due to the actions of earthworms. See his book on the subject here.

The stone now at Down House was reconstructed by Horace Darwin's Cambridge Instrument Company in 1929.

Photograph by John van Wyhe.

 

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