RECORD: Darwin, C. R. 1872. [Earthworm research notes]. CUL-DAR63.116-117. (John van Wyhe ed., 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed and edited by John van Wyhe 7.2025. RN1
NOTE: See record in the Darwin Online manuscript catalogue, enter its Identifier here. Reproduced with permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library and William Huxley Darwin. The volumes CUL-DAR63, CUL-DAR64 and CUL-DAR65 contain a diverse array of materials for Darwin's research on earthworms. All of the textual items in these folders, including this one, have been transcribed in a single file: CUL-DAR63-65.
[rough annotated diagrams of some fields at Down]
Tells nothing
old line of hedge
Pucklands grass for 30 years
(Feb. 5 1872)
Have A & B been ploughed for much shorter period?
foot-path
Lower yet this field A Here slopes to right
Lerch But hedge into odd characters and depression
Sand-walk
My field almost level
Effect of ancient ploughing [illeg]
vegetable gar
Sake's Field
[rough annotated diagrams of some fields at Down]
higher lower
road lower
x The curve in hedge has prevented earth nearly berm so that it is lower than opposite side
Chalk hill
lime kiln
Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
File last updated 7 July, 2025