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Casting about: Darwin on worms
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Earthworms were the subject of a citizen science project to map the distribution of earthworms across Britain (BBC Today programme, 26 May 2014). The general understanding of the role earthworms play in improving soils and providing nutrients for plants to…
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- … and trowel, investigated traces of earthworm activity at Stonehenge , and Horace was later charged …
Earthworms
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As with many of Darwin’s research topics, his interest in worms spanned nearly his entire working life. Some of his earliest correspondence about earthworms was written and received in the 1830s, shortly after his return from his Beagle voyage, and his…
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- … the effects of earthworm action on fallen slabs of stone at Stonehenge. In his reply of two days …
Darwin’s reading notebooks
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In April 1838, Darwin began recording the titles of books he had read and the books he wished to read in Notebook C (Notebooks, pp. 319–28). In 1839, these lists were copied and continued in separate notebooks. The first of these reading notebooks (DAR 119…
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- … very amusing 108 The Dog in health & Disease by Stonehenge—Longman 1859 [Stonehenge …
- … of flora . London. [Other eds.] 119: 11a Stonehenge pseud. (John Henry Walsh). 1859. …
Darwin in letters, 1877: Flowers and honours
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Ever since the publication of Expression, Darwin’s research had centred firmly on botany. The year 1877 was no exception. The spring and early summer were spent completing Forms of flowers, his fifth book on a botanical topic. He then turned to the…
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- … places of observation for Darwin. He and his sons visited Stonehenge to measure the depth of great …
