RECORD: E. Lewis Sturtevant. 1880.05.19. Angle worms in agriculture. New York Weekly Tribune. CUL-DAR194.28. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 8.2023. RN1
NOTE: See record in the Darwin Online manuscript catalogue, enter its Identifier here. Reproduced with permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library & William Huxley Darwin. The volume CUL-DAR194 contains loose notes 'removed from correspondence', Humble bees, hypericum, earthworms, potato grafts etc. 1835-1882.
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There is another influence exercised by this worm, first noticed, so far as my own notes go, by the elder Darwin, who remarks that through their opening of "casts" on the surface, the ground was raised. He mentions one instance when a field that had been marked was raised thirteen inches in eighty years.
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E. Lewis Sturtevant, M.D., South Framington, Mass.
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