Transactions of the Shropshire Archaeological and Natural History Society (1885)
Shropshire Archaeological and Natural History Society (Great Britain) · Shrewsbury [etc.] Shropshire Archaeological and Natural History Society · leaf 116
published in 1839. Two years later he retired,and it was fortunate for the world that thenceforth heacted upon Lyells advice, and worked exclusivelyfor science. It was before the Geological Society, onthe 1st of November, 1837, that Mr. Darwin read ashort paper on the Formation of Mould and… … CHARLElS DARWIN. 37 book on the same subject published not many monthsbefore he died. His uncle, Mr. Josiah Wedgwood of Maer Hall inStaffordshire, had suggested to him that the apparentsinking of superficial bodies was due to the action ofearth-worms ; and this suggestion started Mr. Darwinon the…
Shropshire Archaeological and Natural History Society (Great Britain) · Excavations (Archaeology) · Natural history
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