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RECORD: Darwin, C. R. 1871-1872. There has been strong wind blowing. CUL-DAR63.1. (John van Wyhe ed., 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)

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 have been transcribed in a single file: CUL-DAR63-65.

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Jan 1 1871 There has been strong wind blowing, & the still soft castings seem most of them (not so much in those observed directly after rain) slightly blown over to leewards — Though not subsided.—

West S. W. winds wd blow over fully castings; dry N. Wind the vermiform fragment.—

(Wind)

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Dec 31. /71/ Boys at Holwood Park castings more crumbling & rolled downwards — There was also much crawling on steep slopes of stony field — depends on nature of castings.— (5)

[Holwood Park is mentioned in Earthworms, p. 263.]

Jan 1. Birds & every other animal whichtouchesthe pallets, will tendto throw farther down hill than up hill.—

over

Crumble

Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)