RECORD: Darwin, C. R. [c.1880]. Draft of Earthworms note. CUL-DAR65.127. 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-DAR65 contains materials for Earthworms.
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* Dr. E. Ray Lankester first described with care & figured three pairs of remarkable calciferous glands: see his paper "The anatomy of the Earth worm", Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science vol IV new series 1864 p. 265.
(I think Morren first)
350 rings in a well-grown worm p. 268
Muscular pharynx — oryx — gizzard — calciferous glands
Reference:
Lankester, Edwin Ray. 1864-5. The anatomy of the Earthworm. Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science n.s. 4: 258-268, pl. VII; 5: 7-18, 99-116, pls. II-III. PDF
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