...slopeg where the rain washes the earth away; and they affect slopes, probably to avoid being flooded. Gardeners and farmers express their detestation of...and besides, in favour of worms, it should be hinted 1. The Pern or Churn-owl. ON the 1 2th of July I had an opportunity of contemplating the motions of...

...slopes where the rain washes the earth away ; and they affect slopes, probably to avoid being flooded. Gardeners and farmers express their detestation of...hardbound, and void of fermentation ; and consequently steril : and besides, in favour of worms, it should be hinted that green corn, plants, and flowers,...

...grass. Worms probably provide new soil for hills and slopes, when the rain washes the earth away . . . Earth without worms would soon become cold, hard-bound,...and void of fermentation, and consequently sterile." 2. FROSTS. — In temperate zones, frost is a deadly enemy to vegetation in several forms. In the matter...

...thrushes, herons, gulls, that assemble when the water recedes ; the drowned earth-worm is their chief prey. that the earth without worms would soon become cold,...hard-bound, and void of fermentation, and consequently steril ; and, besides, in favour of worms, it should be hinted that green corn, plants, and flowers,...

...grass. Worms probably próvido new soils for hills and slopes where tho rain washes tho earth away. The earth, without worms, would soon become cold,...and void of fermentation, and consequently sterile." More than half a century later White's observations attracted tho attention of Charles Darwin, then...

...the fanner because they render their walks unsightly, and make them much work : and the latter Wause, as they think, worms eat their green corn. But these...hinted that green corn, plants, and flowers are not BO much injured by them as by many species of coleoptera (scarabs) and tipulfg (long-legs) in their...

...slopes where the rain washes the earth away ; and they affect slopes, probably, to avoid being flooded. Gardeners and farmers express their detestation of...void of fermentation ; and, consequently, sterile.' If Darwin ever read this interesting passage, which he almost certainly must at some time have done,...

...slopes where the rain washes the earth away ; and they affect slopes, probably to avoid being flooded. Gardeners and farmers express their detestation of...besides, in favour of worms, it should be hinted that greeti corn, plants, and flowers, are not so much injured by them as by many species of coleoptera...

.... Worms probably provide new soils for hills and slopes where the rain washes the earth away. . . . The earth without worms would soon beco'me cold, hard-bound,...and void of fermentation; and consequently sterile. '—Gilbert White, 1777. ' It may be doubted whether there are many other animals which have played...

...thrushes, herons, gulls, that assemble when the water recedes ; the drowned eanh-Wjrm is their chief prey. that the earth without worms would soon become cold,...hard-bound, and void of fermentation, and consequently steril; and, besides, in favour of wormB, it should be hinted that green corn, plants, and flowers,...