RECORD: Darwin, C. R. 1880. [Earthworm research notes]. CUL-DAR63.83. Edited by John van Wyhe (The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed 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.
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Jan 18 1880 - Fine rain at first & afterwards for worms there cd be more furrows at a a c than elsewhere & though more worms & consequently Earth brought often to surface & contributed [sketch]
(N. B von Hensen calculation of weight of excrement & quantity sections which passes through worms stomach annually & all this well triturated) & so now from lawn that some particles flow down surface of ...? which wd be called level. Though the slope of basal part of mound wd not be so much loosened as might at first be expected, & to find really wd be
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the whole mound or rampart [illeg] would be lowered and of original height we have not the best evidence
Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
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