The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online

RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. [Worm notes]. CUL-DAR63.55. Edited by John van Wyhe (The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)

REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 6.2021. RN1

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.

If there existed no more of bringing up the disintegrated rock or fine earth from beneath the turf, [fine] dust wd turn to solid rock [with] bits far beneath the roots of plants & no longer be acted on – As it is first rule not be light note down limits

Good fertilizing burn & all Stone [illeg] will subside – so some [marl] & [illeg] of softer [burnt of soil]

CUL-DAR63.56

[in margin:] Disintegrated rounded particles like Shots roll-down

When Land rather bare of vegetation wind will carry bits of castings more down a slope then in opposite direction – All these came with [ca…..] matter some & more these might have been anticipated down every grass-covered slope – The apparent whole – Tumuli –

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