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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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- … had ‘much influence on my mind’ ( letter to W. T. Preyer, 17 February [1870 ])) that without …
- … From 1872, few members of the family were not involved. William, armed with a skewer and trowel, …
- … Gardens, Kew)). In the end, however, as he told his son William, what he hoped his book would reveal …
Darwin in letters, 1869: Forward on all fronts
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At the start of 1869, Darwin was hard at work making changes and additions for a fifth edition of Origin. He may have resented the interruption to his work on sexual selection and human evolution, but he spent forty-six days on the task. Much of the…
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- … edition appeared at the end of 1866 and had told his cousin William Darwin Fox, ‘My work will have …
- … of the age of the earth much greater than that calculated by William Thomson, but he did point out, …
- … based on recent work of Croll, Andrew Crombie Ramsay, William Whitaker, and others ( Origin 5th …
- … his long-time correspondent, the pigeon and poultry fancier William Bernhard Tegetmeier, who sent …
- … lusitanicum that had been painstakingly collected by William Chester Tait in Portugal. Darwin …
- … since its publication in 1862. Darwin asked his son William to examine the British orchid …
- … in order to better ascertain its manner of pollination. William’s contribution, and those of many …
- … the basis for a new German edition (Bronn and Carus trans. 1870), prepared by Julius Victor Carus, …
- … own evolutionary views and critical commentary (Royer trans. 1870). Darwin complained to Hooker, …
- … was probably the one he commissioned and paid for himself: William Sweetland Dallas’s edition of …
- … from Adolf Reuter, 23 September 1869 ). The physiologist William Thierry Preyer enclosed a paper …
- … work some hours daily’ ( letter to Anton Dohrn, 4 January 1870 ). Darwin’s health was generally …
