A Book of Natural History

Huxley, Darwin, Wallace, Burroughs and Maeterlinck, writing for young readers — thirty-odd essays by the great naturalists on everything from the man-like apes to what worms do.

What Worms Do

4 pages in this part of A Book of Natural History.

What Worms Do

W E now come to treat of a curious and important subject, - namely, the amount of earth which is brought up by worms from beneath the…

What Worms Do: Knole

The transformation in the appearance of this field, which had been effected beneath my eyes, was afterwards rendered the more striking…

What Worms Do: Stonehenge

At Stonehenge, some of the outer Druidical stones are now prostrate, having fallen at a remote but unknown period; and these have become…

What Worms Do: Hensen

We will now show, first, what a vast number of worms live unseen by us beneath our feet, and, secondly, the actual weight of the earth…

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