RECORD: Darwin, C. R. 1871. [Earthworm research notes]. CUL-DAR64.1.4. 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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Dec 26 /71/
At Maer cinder many scattered, but I had 1 1/2 inches of fine fully sifted cinders put on field — now a fine casting at top. & by tracing down, I find a hollow cinder of mud — it is deem word had reaching pushed tube in order & casts one earth & the particle to earth & made first castings & others reached surface without a thick tube.
Cinders loose— As far as I could judge had not swallowed any cinders.
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