RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. 'Unfortunate omission'. CUL-DAR63.86. 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.
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I have made an unfortunate omission in my pages of enquiry. When I ask whether the ridge & furrow supposing them to have [illeg] down a slope are as distant at the base as at the top, I ought to have added after the word bottom, where to the slope becomes level or nearly level.
Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
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