INDEX. 319 



Food of worms, leaves, 35 



earth, 100 



Foster, Michael, on the pancreatic ferment, 37 

 on the acidity of the contents of the 



intestines, 52 

 Foundations, deep, of the Roman buildings at Wroxeter, 



227 

 Furrows on old ploughed fields, 292 



Galton, Mr., on the number of dead worms, 14 

 Geikie, Archibald, on Denudation, 233 



controverts E. de Beaumont's views on 



Denudation, 289 



, James, controverts Richthofen's views, 237 



on glaciated rocks, 245 



Geographical distribution of worms, 120 

 Gizzards of worms, 246 

 Glands, calciferous, 17, 43 



function of, 49 



Glen Roy, evidence of rarity of debacles, 260 



Haast, Yon, on aboriginal instruments in New Zealand 



found buried, 147 

 Hearing, sense of, 26 

 Heat, perception of, 25 

 Heaths, inhabited by few worms, except where paths 



cross them, 10 

 Hensen on the number of worms in gardens, 5 



on worms not subsisting on earth, 108 



depth of burrows, 110 



> on number of worms living in a given area, 158 



on the composition of mould, 238 



on the amount of humus formed by two 



worms, 310 



