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pianoforte, through the saucer, the walls of the pots & the damp & not very compact earth, before reaching the bodies of the worms. They often showed their sensitiveness when the pot in which they lived lived or the table on which these stand was accidentally & lightly struck; but they appeared less sensitiveness to such jars than to the vibrations from of the wires of a pianoforte; & their sensitiveness varied on at different occasions nights  times. It is has often been said that if the ground is beaten or otherwise made to tremble, wo the worms will believe that they are pursued by a mole & will completely leave their burrows. I beat the ground in many places where worms abounded, but not one emerged; but when the ground is being  dug by a fork, & it is violently disturbed beneath when where is lying lies, it will come to the surface escape on    quickly crawl out of its burrow   as I have seen.)

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-fertilised plants of the fifth generation, of which latter fact there could not be no the least doubt.

[illeg]ichall    These three lots of plants were cut down close to the ground and weighed. The 21 Westerham-crossed plants weighed 32 oz.; the 22 intercrossed plants, 34 oz. and the 21 self-fertilised plants 7 1/4 oz. The following ratios are calculated for an equal number of plants of each kind. But as the (101) self fertilised plants were just beginning to wither, their relative weight is here slightly too small; and as the Westerham-crossed were still growing vigorously, their relative weight with time had been allowed would no doubt have greatly increased. them

The Westerham-crossed plants in weight to the self-fertilised, } as 100 to 22

The Westerham-crossed plants in weight to the intercrossed, } as 100 to 101

The intercrossed plants in weight to the self-fertilised, } as 100 to 22.3