RECORD: Darwin, C. R. 1880. [Earthworm research notes]. CUL-DAR64.1.14. 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 volume CUL-DAR64.1 contains material for Earthworms, experiments on worms; different locales & photographs and cuttings from journals.

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(Smell — soaked cotton wool in strong tobacco juice & held close to 2 worms no effect.

generally concentrated acetic acid equally inefficient, but worm twice retracted, but this may well have been that skin affected by so pungent a vapour & which (Perrier) is so astonishing a deadly a poison to them in so astonishing degree.)

[Earthworms, p. 44, note: "Perrier, 'Archives de Zoolog. expér. July, 1874, pp. 416, 419."]

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