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July 29 night of

Meat

In Pot. 2 for many hours 1 worm had almost buried in cut end of raw meat & many (20) the substance between outer surfaces seem certainly hollowed out or corroded.

The other worms were also all every attacking a bit of fat with any thickness of meat — In Pot I Big worm occasionally with head to raw meat.

July 30th all 4 worms at raw meat & fat — almost certainly the big worm pulled at raw meat & at fat with wonderful force, having drawn large pieces into the hollow retracted came at ant. end of body.

31st 8° a good deal of roast meat & fat gnawed away

31st 10° P.m — again sucking & tugging at raw meat & fat.

Aug 2d 10° P.m in 2d Pot worm at fatty roasted meat

6th The meat has been for some time 1/2 liquified & putrid & I have never seen worms go near it, so I doubt Hoffmeister, but then my evidence is not good for on 4th I put in both pots bits of fresh meat & those were not visited by worms.

Sept 9th 11h put raw meat in both pots & till 15h every night meat was used & repeatedly dragged into mouth of burrow. — certainly attentive.

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Mental Qualities— perhaps they have some social feeling that sometime lie in contact & are not at all afraid of other worms crawling over their bodies & Hoffmeister (?) But Hensen has never seen seven says that they lie up in winter rolled together into a ball.

Aug 28 put 1/2 dead worm on surface of both pots & both were dragged to holes — Probably cannibal.

Reference:

Hensen, Victor. 1877. Die Thätigkeit des Regenwurms (Lumbricus terrestris L.) für die Fruchtbarkeit des Erdbodens. Zeitschrift für Wissenschaftliche Zoologie 28: 354-364. [Darwin Pamphlet Collection 1483] PDF