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Show 324 INDEX. Sachs on living roots corroding rocks, 243 Sago, loaves of, not oaten by worms, 33 Saliva, doubtful whether any secreted by worms, 4.3 Srmssuro, II. Do, on brick-1)obblos, 254. Schmulcwitsch on tho digestion of cellulose, 38 Scott, Mr. J., on worms non.r Calcutta, 123 Seeds prosorvod in tho burrows of worms, 115 Semper on various animals swallowing sn.nd, 102 Senses of worms, 19 Silchostor, old Roman town, 201 Silica, colloid, n.ctcd on by tho humus-acids, 242 Simpson, Mr., on worms dragging leaves, 58 Sinking of the pavements at Silchestor, 212 Sites inhabited by worms, 9 Smell, sense of, 29 Social feelings of worms, 34 Sorby, Mr., on the triturn.tion of small particles of rock, 257 Starch eaten by worms, 36 --digestion of tho granules in the cells of loaves, 4.2 St. Catherine's Hill, ncar Winchester, 302 Stonos, great, undermined by worms at Leith Hill and at Stonehenge, 149 ---small, heaped over burrows, 61 --- small, in tho gizzards of worms, 24 7 --- rounded in the gizzards of worms, 249 Stonehenge, great stones of, undermined by worms, 155 ----circular trenches near, 287 Structure of worms, 16 Subsidence of tho pavements at Silchcstcr, 212 Suction, power of, 56 Sugar ou.ton by worms, 36 Summary of whole book, 305 Surface, objects strewed on, buried under castings, 130 INDEX. 325 Taste, power of, 32 Thickness of the layer of mould annually ejected by worms, 169 ----of the mould over tho remains at Chodwortb, 199 of tho mould over the remains at Silchester, 218 - - of tho mould over tho Roman remains at Wroxotor, 223 Thyme, loaves of, not eaton by worms, 33 To~cb, worms highly sensitive to, 29 Trmnglcs of paper, 83 Trituration of particles of rock in the gizzards of worms 249 ' Tumuli, ancient, 290 Tylor, Mr. A., on Denudation, 233 Tylor, Mr. E., on anciently plouahod land 293 Typhosolis, 19 b ' Utricularia, bladders of, 109 Vibrations, worms sensitive to, 27 . Vision, power of, in worms, 20 Walls, ancient, at Abinger, penetrated by worms, 188 penetrated by worms at Silchestor 209 Washing away of castings, 272 ' Wedgwood, Mr., on tho formation of mould 3 Weight of earth ejected from a single burro~, 161 • Whitaker, Mr., on Denudation, 232 White, on worms leaving their burrows at night, 14 Winchester, chalk formation ncar, 301 Wind, action of, on castings, 283 Worms, nocturnal, 13 ---large numbers occasionally die, 14 --- dead eaton by other worms, 37 |