RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. [Worm notes: 'Habits' on castings on commons]. CUL-DAR64.1.92. (John van Wyhe ed., 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)

REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 6.2021. RN2

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 volume CUL-DAR64 contains material for Earthworms, experiments on worms; different locales & photographs and cuttings from journals.

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Castings are especially abundant on commons, apparently because the land is poor & produced a scanty vegetation.

On other hand, I have noticed there is great number in the Green Park — Came there as because wondering food are scarcer but

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It is an instinct coming to surface when land shaken.


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