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  • Morren on worms eating sugar, 36
  • —Morren— — — on the disappearance of the calciferous glands during winter, 48
  • —Morren— — — on stones in the gizzards of worms, 247, 249
  • Mould, thickness of, annually ejected by worms, 169
  • —Mould,— — — thickness of, over Roman remains at Chedworth, 199
  • —Mould,— — — nature and thickness of, over the Roman remains at Silchester, 218
  • —Mould,— — — thickness of, at Wroxeter, 223
  • —Mould,— — — formation and thickness of, over the chalk, 297
  • Mountains, worms absent from, 12
  • Müller, Fritz, on the worms in South Brazil, 121


  • Nice, castings near, 106
  • —Nice,— — — disintegrated castings near, 276
  • Night, worms leave their burrows, 14
  • Nilgiri Mountains, castings on, 126


  • Objects strewed on the surface soon buried under castings, 130
  • Obliteration of old furrows on ploughed land, 292
  • Odours, degree of sensitiveness to, by worms, 29


  • Pancreatic secretion, 37
  • —Pancreatic secretion,— — — not acid, 53
  • Paper, triangles of, 82
  • Path, paved, burial of, by worm-castings, 145
  • Paths inhabited by worms, 10
  • Pavement, modern, undermined by worms, 192
  • Pavements, ancient, subsidence of, at Silchester, 212
  • Peat, formation of, 239
  • Percolation of earth into the chalk, 297