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RECORD: Darwin, C. R. 1880. [Earthworm research notes]. CUL-DAR64.1.53. Edited by John van Wyhe (The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)

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. All of the textual items in these folders, including this one, have been transcribed in a single file: CUL-DAR63-65.

Oct 21 [1880]

Burdock leaf eaten (This is abstract of some other paper)

Oct 21. tips 1 carrot leaves drawn in & almost blackened or browned — next day — most have removed in about 12 hrs

Of green & red cabbage, turnip, celery, beet & cherry — of these carrot (1) & wild cherry (2) preferred

Leaves discoloured

Grass-leaf

Carrot

Celery

Cabbage (numerous 1/2 decayed) — but the latter often not affected & appeared not even fermented by juice

Turnip

Maple-leaf- out of doors

out of door

Lime

Elm Ivy

53V

Leaves which had been drawn into burrows at some unknown interval period & which were very [illeg] & that only a trace exhibited a trace of alkaline reaction.

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