The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online

RECORD: Darwin, C. R. 1872. [Earthworm research notes]. CUL-DAR63.116-117. Edited by John van Wyhe (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, including this one, have been transcribed in a single file: CUL-DAR63-65.

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[rough annotated diagrams of some fields at Down]

Tells nothing

old line of hedge

Pokelands grass for 30 years

(Feb. 5 1872)

Have A & B been ploughed for much shorter period?

foot-path

Lower yet this field A Here slopes to right

Lerch But hedge into odd characters and depression

Sand-walk

My field almost level

Effect of ancient ploughing [illeg]

vegetable gar

Sake's Field

117

[rough annotated diagrams of some fields at Down]

higher lower

road lower

x The curve in hedge has prevented earth nearly berm so that it is lower than opposite side

Chalk hill

lime kiln

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