RECORD: Darwin, C. R. 1872. [Earthworm research notes]. CUL-DAR63.77-78. Edited by John van Wyhe (The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Prepared and edited by John van Wyhe 7.2025. 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.
77
Jan 1872
4 furrows on same slope in field at Beaulieu bare grass between 50 & 60 yards -Bailiff told me (or former Bailiff) — the angle of slope in first furrow is taken from the 2nd in which case each measurement was made
W. E. Darwin
Jan 1872
[table]
Perhaps all that I can find in the old furrow folds do not tell against worm-action
It appears that furrows are somewhat filled up at bottom of slope & actually deeper in steepest parts. But the harrowing of field, when laid down great cause of doubt.-
78
[sketch of slope]
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