RECORD: Darwin, C. R. [1875-1880]. Draft leaf of Earthworms, folio 3 / pp. 18-19, and Cross and self fertilisation, folio 32 (fair copy) / p. 166. LINSOC-DWC.2.22. (Cite as: John van Wyhe ed., 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Catalogued, transcribed and edited by John van Wyhe 3.2026. RN1
NOTE: See record in the Darwin Online manuscript catalogue, enter its Identifier here. Reproduced with permission of the Linnean Society of London and William Huxley Darwin. LINSOC-DWC.2 consists of an album of draft leaves of Darwin's books, Earthworms, Insectivorous plants, Cross and self fertilisation, Expression, and Power of movement deposited by The Charles Darwin Trust.
This rough draft of Darwin's book on worms was transferred to the family scrap paper pile after creation of the fair copy, which is now in CUL-DAR24 & CUL-DAR25.
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burows, it is probable that they sense, like mill-stones, to triturate earth their food. On each of the largest gizzard for subsistence worms so that the nutrition [illeg] may be extracted from it [3 words illeg]
The intestine presents a remarkable form a unique structure, the typhosolis, (or as the old anatomists called it, an intestine within an intestine), which Claparède* [page torn]
whitish action; for worms kept in pots covered by
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Sarothamnus
(1869), the one self-fertilised plant which had been before victorious was since beaten. They were now measured as shown in the following table 59
Table 59.
Pot II
Sarothamnus scoparius
Crossed Plants. |
Self-fertilised Plants. |
Inches. |
Inches. |
15 6/8 |
13 1/8 |
9 6/8 |
3 |
8 2/8 |
2 4/8 |
The same plants were again measured in the autumn [page torn]
following follows
Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
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