OCR Text |
Show 322 INDEX. Morren on worms eating sug11r, 36 ---on the disn.ppen.rn.nco of tho calciferous ghmds during winter, 4.9 - -- on stones in tho gizzards of worms, 24 7, 24:9 1\fould, thickness of, annually ejected by worms, 169 --- thickness of, over Roman remains at Uhcd worth, 199 --- nature n.nd thickness of, over e Romn.n remains n.t Silchostor, 218 --- thickness of, at Wroxotor, 223 --- formn.tion n.nd thickness of, over the chalk, 297 Mountn.ins, worms absent from, 12 1\IUllcr, Fritz, on tho worms in South Bmzil, 121 Nice, castings ncn.r, 106 -- disintegrated cn.stings ncar, 276 Night, worms loavo their burrows, 14: Nilgiri Mountains, castings on, 126 Objects strewed on the surface soon buried under cAstings, 130 Ol>litoro.tion of old furrows on ploughed land, 292 Odours, degree of sensitiveness to, by worms, 29 Po.ncrco.tic secretion, 37 --------- not acid, 53 Pn.per, trin.ngles of, 83 Parfitt, Mr., on the closing of tho mouths of burrows, G3 Path, pn.ved, buri11l of, by worm-cn.stiugs, 14:5 Paths inho.bited by worms, 10 Prwement, modem, undermined by worms, 192 Pavements, o.ncient, subsidence of, at Silchcstcr, 212 Pco.t, formation of, 239 Percolo.tion of co.rth into tho chalk, 297 INDEX. Pcrichrota, natumlizod ncar Nice 106 p ern.c r, worms surviving long im' mersion, 13 --- on tho calciferous gll:mcls, 44: - -- on tho action of tho phnrynx, 56 ---- on tho bmrowiug power of wot·ms, 99 --- on naturalizecl worms, lOG --- on worms killed Ly acetic n.cicl, 1 GO - - - on tho gizzn.nls of worms 24:G 24:9 Petioles of Clematis, 78 ' ' - -- of tho ash, 79 Pharynx, action of, 56 Pike, stupiclity of, 94: Pine-len.vos used in plugging up burrows, 59, 71 . lining Lurrows, 112 P1pos, formation of, in tho chn.lk 107 Pln.yfair on Denudation, 290 ' Ploughed fields, old, 292 Plugging up of tho Lurrows, 58 -----usc of tho process, G2 Prehension, power of, by worms, 56 Qualities, mental, of worms, 34: 323 Ramsay, Mr., on tho sinking of 11 ptwoment nudormiuod by worms, 192 ----- on Denudation, 231 Remains, ancient, buried by worms, 17G Rhododendron loaves, G9 Richthofen on dust deposits in Chinn., 237 Robinia, petioles of, 81 Rocks, disintegration of, aided by worms, 240 --triturated in tho gizzards of worms 249 Rolling clown of dry cnstings, 27 5 ' Romn.nes, Mr., on tho intelligence of n.nimn.ls, 95 |