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[Notes on worms for Earthworms, including (1) castings; (2) furrows & ploughed land; (3) experiments at different locales etc.]
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1877?]. This is a reference to what is now so famous to visitors to Down House, the wormstone. [CUL-DAR65.3-6,6v_002
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CUL-DAR65.3-6,6v
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Wormoscope / 11.45 am put 1 gigantic & 1 small worm in — can travel
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letter from Francis Darwin to Darwin [28 October 1877?]. This is a reference to what is now so famous to visitors to Down House, the wormstone.
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A668
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Atkins, Hedley. 1976. Down: the home of the Darwins; the story of a house and the people who lived there. London: Royal College of Surgeons [Phillimore].
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condition of the piano (it turned out that it had been tuned only a fortnight before) this unique relic was conveyed to the drawing-room at Down House and took up its old position by the window on to the verandah, where it is today. A suitable upright piano was not immediately found, but the kindly Positivist Society gratefully accepted 20 to buy one of their own choice. In April 1929 the famous Wormstone used by Charles in his experiments to see whether earthworms created the topsoil was
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'General Bulwer, a beautiful place in Norfolk [Heydon Hall], to see the picture of Erasmus Earle, an ancestor'. Also a monument to E in Sts Peter Paul Church. DNB. Earth, Age of 1877 CD's views on in MLii 211 212. Earthworms see Vegetable mould and worms and Wormstone. Eastbourne Sussex. 1853 Jul. 14 Aug.4 CD had family holiday there. 1860 Sep.22 Nov.11 family holiday there. Eaton, Bertha m 1848 Edmund Edward Allen, sister of Dorothea Hannah E. Eaton, Dorothea Hannah ? 1868. m 1846 George Baugh
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'Several times after my marriage, my father and mother invited the party to Down. The first time was in the summer of 1873 . . . often as many as sixty or seventy' EDii 213. Worms 1869 The formation of mould by worms, Gdnr's Chronicle, No.20:530 (Bii 137, F1745). 1880 CD to H. Johnson, 'My heart soul care for worms nothing else in the world just at present' N R 74. 'Darwin had none but kindly feelings for worms' L. Stephen, Biography of Swift see also Vegetable mould and worms. Wormstone The original
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Freeman, R. B. 2007. Charles Darwin: A companion. 2d online edition, compiled by Sue Asscher.
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Cambridge Instrument Company, 1885-. Chairman Sir Horace Darwin, partner A. G. Dew Smith, Botolph Lane. First known as The Shop . Made wormstone for Down House. Taken over by Pye. Cambridge Philosophical Society Henslow and Sedgwick were the leading instigators. CD was never a member. 1819 Founded. 1835, 1960 Issued for private circulation CD's Letters on geology, reprinted by them 1960. 1879 The members commissioned portrait of CD by W. B. Richmond, which still hangs in their rooms. Cambridge
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A27b
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Freeman, R. B. 2007. Charles Darwin: A companion. 2d online edition, compiled by Sue Asscher.
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H. Johnson, My heart and soul care for worms and nothing else in the world just at present —N R 74. Darwin had none but kindly feelings for worms —L. Stephen, Biography of Swift see also Vegetable mould and worms. Wormstone The original stone was used by CD to measure the movement of soil due to earthworms. The stone now at Down House was reconstructed by the Cambridge Instrument Company, Horace D's firm, in 1929—Atkins 118. [page] 30
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Freeman, R. B. 2007. Charles Darwin: A companion. 2d online edition, compiled by Sue Asscher.
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, an ancestor . Earth, Age of 1877 CD's views on in MLii 211-212. Earthworms, see Vegetable mould and worms and Wormstone. Eastbourne, Sussex. 1853 Jul. 14-Aug. 4 CD had family holiday there. 1860 Sep. 22-Nov. 11 family holiday there. Eastbury Park A house near Gunville, Dorset. 1800 Bought by Tom Wedgwood. 1803 Sold to Jos Wedgwood. until 1805 Tom continued to live there with his sisters Catherine and Sarah Elizabeth until his death. Eaton, Bertha Sister of Dorothea Hannah E. 1848 Married Edmund
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