F1416    Book contribution:     Darwin, C. R. 1882. [Extracts from Darwin's draft chapter 10 of Natural selection]. In Romanes, G. J., Animal intelligence. London: Kegan Paul Trench & Co.   Text   Image   PDF

test sympathy, 155-6; way-finding, 181-3; recognising one another, 183-4. On co-operation of beetles, 226. Ludicrous, sense of, in dogs, 444-5; in monkeys, 476, 485, 487, and 490 Lukis, F. C., on limpet remembering locality, 29 MACLACHLAN, on caddis-worms, 244 MacLaurin, on mathematical principles observed by bees in constructing their cells, 171 Macropodos, 244 Malcolm, Sir James, on sympathy shown by monkey, 474-5 Malle, Dureau de la, on dog knocking knocker, 423-4; collective instinct of dogs

A2900    Periodical contribution:     Anon. 1882. [Obituary of Charles Darwin, with portrait]. Leader (Melbourne), (29 April): 5.   Text   PDF

Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals, Movements and Habits of Climbing Plants, Insectivorous Plants, c. Only a few months ago he published a work on The Formation of Vegetable Mould by Earth Worms, which showed all his old powers of observation and generalisation, and the same clearness: Or style and arrangement which has characterised all his writings. It is hardly necessary to say that Mr. Darwin received almost every honor that science could bestow. He received from the University of

A2899    Periodical contribution:     Anon. 1882. [Obituary of Charles Darwin]. Sydney Morning Herald (22 April): 3.   Text

schools of philosophy at Athens, but upon the methods of Bacon and Locke. The latest work from his pen appeared only last year, and the reviews are still occupied in discussing its merits. Its full title is The Formation of Vegetable Mould through the action of Worms, with observation on their habits. It is an octavo volume of 330 pages, and is as fine a specimen of scientific observation and inductive reasoning, although the author was 72 years old, as his first work, A Naturalist's Voyage, begun at

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objects sinking down, but really to the cumulative effect of worms' castings. The doubt such a statement may excite will be dissipated by a knowledge of what a worm can do in a given period, and the multiplication of that amount by number and time. Hensen, in experiments made on worms in confinement and fed on leaves, found that they ejected about eight grains of earth a day; but, according to Darwin, 'a very much larger amount must be ejected by worms in their natural state, at the periods when

A2262    Review:     T. 1882. [Review of Earthworms]. Earth worms and the spread of disease. St. Louis Courier if Medicine 7 (February): 144-146.   Text   PDF

to the wind and rain. The minute particles of rock often swallowed are subjected to trituration in the gizzard of the worm, and are acted upon as well by acids; they are thereby still further reduced and fitted for the formation of fertile soil. As worms burrow readily to the depth of three to four feet, and sometimes deeper even in solid subsoil, bodies buried are easily reached by them in the search for food. They devour greedily flesh and fat. Imagination will picture the mischief done by

CUL-DAR216.7a    Printed:    1882.04.21   [Obituary notice of Darwin Charles Robert] `Daily Telegraph'   Text   Image

, or the Work of the Worms are portrayed. And, if any one would realise how reverently and hopefully the illustrious dead thought of the Power which is above and beyond all these protean manifestations, let his own words be cited: It is interesting to contemplate a tangled bank, clothed with many plants of many kinds, with birds singing on the bushes, with various insects flitting about, and with worms crawling through the damp earth, and to reflect that these elaborately constructed forms, so

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in the whirl and sweep of it we are not in a position to say. Under the immediate influence of the sad loss we can only state a few obvious facts and make a few quite as obvious reflections; in time we may be able to realize how great a man now belongs to the past. That Mr. Darwin's work was not done nor his capacity for work exhausted was well enough seen in his recently-published work on Worms; and with the help of his able and congenial sons, Mr. George and Mr. Francis Darwin, we might have

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carrying out which have never been surpassed, and rarely equalled. These experiments related to the fertilisation of Orchids and of numerous other plants, the movements executed by growing plants, the curious phenomena of digestion carried on by the leaves of certain so-called carnivorous plants, the action of worms on the soil, and other subjects now so well known, that the mere mention will suffice. These manifold researches have raised Darwin to the highest rank among naturalists and

CUL-DAR216.18    Printed:    [1882.04.26.after]   Darwin `Literary World': [date and pp. excised]   Text   Image

and Habits of Climbing Plants. A second and revised edition of a paper first published in 1865. 1876. The Effects of Cross and Self-Fertilization in the Vegetable Kingdom. 1877. The Different Forms of Flowers on Plants of the Same Species. 1880. The Power of Movement in Plants. 1881. The Formation of Vegetable Mould through the Action of Earth-Worms. With Observations on their Habits. I. On the 20th of April died one of the most notable men of the age─ among scientific men doubtless the most

A645    Periodical contribution:     Marti, José. 1882. [Obituary of Darwin] Darwin ha muerto. La Opinión Nacional Caracas (17 May): p. 1.   Text   Image

traducción del título en inglés: The effects of cross and self-fertilization in the vegetable kingdom. 26 En LON punto y coma. 27 Movements and Variations of Climbing Plants. 28 El poder de movimiento en las plantas (1880), libro publicado en colaboración con su hijo Francis. 29 La estructura y distribución de los arrecifes de coral (1842). 30 «Volcanic Islands». 31 Monografía de la clase Cirripedia (1851-1854). 32 Cirripedia. 33 Formation of Vegetable Mould through the Action of Worms. En el propio

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

surface by worms in the form of castings. This subject has been faithfully followed up through a period of over forty years. After describing the structure and habits of the earth-worm, Darwin Shows that they burrow both by pushing away the earth on all sides, the pharynx being, as Perrier had shown, pushed forwards into the end of the head, causing it to swell out, and thus push the earth away on all sides, while also the worm swallows the dirt, which passes through the body. In this way worms

CUL-DAR198.123    Correspondence:   Lankester Edwin Ray  [1882].06.03   Lankester Edwin Ray   Text   Image   PDF

The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online 1 Dear Darwin, The enclosed may also be of value to you. Your father says he could not bear to see the worms wriggling with which he angled so took the trouble to put them into salt water. This is one of the little bits of evidence of his kindness. Yours ever E Ray Lankeste

A861    Periodical contribution:     Spiers, William. 1882. Charles Robert Darwin. Wesleyan-Methodist Magazine 1882 (July): 488-494.   Text

least adapted to the environments or conditions of their life, became, through long processes, extinct. This is what Darwin meant by 'Natural Selection,' and is accurately enough described in the now popular phrase, 'The survival of the fittest.' To borrow the Author's own words: The tangled bank, clothed with many plants of many kinds, with birds singing on the bushes, with various insects flitting about, and with worms crawling through the damp earth.... have all been produced by laws acting

CUL-DAR144.45-86    Note:    1882.08.00   Recollections of Darwin, with copies of letters from Darwin Charles Robert   Text

In 1878 he again came to stay with us at Abinger, but I have no notes of anything that happened. In the winger of 1878,9 his son Horace was married to my daughter. In the autumn of 1880 he was busy with his book on worms, and we sent him a number of different specimens of brick rubbish, from gravel walks underlaid with brick, and from various other places in which it might be supposed the worms had 8

A234    Pamphlet:     Aveling, E. B. 1883. The religious views of Charles Darwin. London: Freethought Publishing Company.   Text   Image

transmitted. He told us of his book on Vegetable Mould and Worms. It was published but a week or two after that memorable visit, and has to all men a melancholy interest added to all its other charms, in that it is the last of his written utterances to us. In my youthfulness I expressed a foolish surprise that he who had written the Origin of Species should deal with a subject so insignificant as worms. I see his face now, as he turned it on mine and said quietly: I have been studying their

CUL-DAR139.12.4    Printed:    1883   'The religious views of Charles Darwin' [Freethought]   Text   Image

transmitted. He told us of his book on Vegetable Mould and Worms. It was published but a week or two after that memorable visit, and has to all men a melancholy interest added to all its other charms, in that it is the last of his written utterances to us. In my youthfulness I expressed a foolish surprise that he who had written the Origin of Species should deal with a subject so insignificant as worms. I see his face now, as he turned it on mine and said quietly: I have been studying their

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

A317    Book:     Woodall, Edward. 1884. Charles Darwin. A paper contributed to the Transactions of the Shropshire Archæological Society. London: Trübner.   Text   Image   PDF

full of stones. One of the chapters is devoted to the part which worms have played in the burial of ancient buildings; and this chapter has a local interest, for two of its illustrations are drawn from the neighbourhood of Shrewsbury. Archaeologists are probably not aware how much they owe to worms for the preservation of many ancient objects. Coins, gold ornaments, stone implements, c, if dropped on the surface of the ground, will infallibly be buried by the castings of worms in a few years, and

CUL-DAR140.3.1--159    Draft:    [1884]   'Reminiscences of My Father's Everyday Life' (partial fair copy)   Text   Image

care) not generally belong to such work as counting. I think it he personified each seed with as a small demon trying to elude him by getting with the wrong heap or jumping off altogether — this gave the excitement of a game ranger to the work. On personifying cf. L. Stephen 'Swift' 1882 p.200 Swift's directions to servants compared to CD's obsns in worms, but CD had none but kindly feelings for worms. I remember that he had a special narrow bladed (eye?) knife which he considered specially

A317    Book:     Woodall, Edward. 1884. Charles Darwin. A paper contributed to the Transactions of the Shropshire Archæological Society. London: Trübner.   Text   Image   PDF

ancient buildings in England have been buried so effectually, in large part through the action of worms, that they have been discovered in recent times solely through various accidents.1 Amongst the ancient remains examined for Mr. Darwin was the old Roman city of Uriconium, and the work was undertaken by the late Dr. Henry Johnson of Shrewsbury, one of the members of our Society. Dr. Johnson had trenches dug in four fields, and supplied Mr. Darwin with a table of measurements showing the thickness

A2522    Review:     Melvin, James. 1884. [Review of Earthworms]. Nature, 29 (27 March): 502-503.   Text   PDF

affords few indications that earthworms ever passed it through their bodies, In a section of soil I brought from the Mataura plain, South Island of New Zealand, nothing could be seen to indicate that worms had ever swallowed it. That vegetable soil forms a fit habitation for earthworms is undoubted. Darwin admits ''that a layer, though a thin one, of fine earth, which probably long retains some moisture, is in all cases necessary for their existence. Before this thin layer existed, how could they

A317    Book:     Woodall, Edward. 1884. Charles Darwin. A paper contributed to the Transactions of the Shropshire Archæological Society. London: Trübner.   Text   Image   PDF

valuable of man's inventions; but long before he existed the land was in fact regularly ploughed, and it still continues to be thus ploughed, by earth-worms. It may be doubted whether there are many other animals which have played so important a part in the history of the world, as have these lowly organized creatures. Though the book on Earth Worms closed the long series of his great works, it was not Mr. Darwin's last word to the public. Amongst other short papers, he afterwards wrote a

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things — a most keen feeling of their aliveness. Sometimes it came out in abuse not praise. E.g. of some seedlings — 'The little beggars are doing just what I don't want them to — Or the half provoked half admiring way he spoke of the ingenuity of a Mimosa leaf in screwing itself out of a basin of water in which he tired to plunge it. One might see the same spirit in his way of speaking or working at Drosera-worms c. This sounds s 105

F1281    Book:     Darwin, C. R. 1884. The different forms of flowers on plants of the same species. 3d thousand. Preface by Francis Darwin. London: John Murray.   Text   Image   PDF

important differences between the forms, as in the diameter of the pollen-grains, or in the structure of the stigma. The individuals of many ordinary hermaphrodite plants habitually fertilise one another, owing to their male and female organs being mature at different periods, or to the structure of the parts, or to self-sterility, c.; and so it is with many hermaphrodite animals, for instance, land-snails or earth-worms; but in all these cases any one individual can fully fertilise or be ferti

A317    Book:     Woodall, Edward. 1884. Charles Darwin. A paper contributed to the Transactions of the Shropshire Archæological Society. London: Trübner.   Text   Image   PDF

were embodied in the larger works afterwards published. One, on the habits of the South American Ostrich, was read at a meeting of the Zoological Society in March, 1839, when Mr. Gould described the Rhea Darwinii, so called in honour of its discoverer, and spoke of Mr. Darwin's important contributions to science; two others, on the Planarian Worms of South America and on Sagitta and its Development, appeared in 1844; but most of Mr. Darwin's attention was directed at this time to geology. In