RECORD: Darwin, C. R. 1871. [Earthworm research notes]. CUL-DAR64.1.3. 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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There were not so much reiterated casting up of the same earth as I thought, for though worms must surface perhaps through the earth beneath to surface a while, but lately passed through their intestines, they were the same passage or high round from below for some time & thus make larger heaps of castings on same spots brought up from some considerable depth
Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
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