RECORD: Darwin, C. R. 1880. [Earthworm research notes]. CUL-DAR64.1.76. Edited by John van Wyhe (The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)

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


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Dec 3 [1880]

I found a grass leaf — still attached to root; drawn into hole by tip, & this tip buried & killed — the section is evidently poisonous — Tried several old decayed leaves drawn into holes, out of doors & now alkaline, except possibly & slightly a Hornbeam & other unknown leaf.


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