RECORD: Darwin, C. R. 9.[1880]. Habits / I record in my notes on Sept 28 that near Down [Earthworm research notes] CUL-DAR65.14. 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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Habits

I record in my notes on Sept 28 that near Down hundreds on hundreds of fresh castings, which from being almost black, have certainly not been brought up from a depth are now daily brought to the surface, & yet not a leaf having been drawn into their burrows near Hedge near Sand-walk


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Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)

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