Earthworms and Their Allies
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About This Book
Originally published during the early part of the twentieth century, the Cambridge Manuals of Science and Literature were designed to provide concise introductions to a broad range of topics. They were written by experts for the general reader and combined a comprehensive approach to knowledge with an emphasis on accessibility. Earthworms and their Allies, written in 1912 by Frank E. Beddard, offers both an introduction to the principal facts about earthworms and an analysis of their distribution across the world.
Chapters (161)
- EARTHWORMS AND THEIR ALLIES
- PREFACE
- CONTENTS
- CHAPTER I STRUCTURAL AND SYSTEMATIC
- The Anatomy of Earthworms.
- The Aquatic Families of Oligochaeta.
- CHAPTER II MODE OF LIFE
- Aquatic Earthworms.
- Marine Species.
- Earthworms originally purely aquatic animals.
- CHAPTER III THE EXTERNAL FEATURES OF EARTHWORMS AND THEIR RELATION TO HABIT AND ENVIRONMENT
- CHAPTER IV SENSE ORGANS AND SENSES OF EARTHWORMS
- CHAPTER V RELATIVE FREQUENCY OF EARTHWORMS IN DIFFERENT REGIONS OF THE WORLD
- The Range of Genera.
- CHAPTER VI PEREGRINE FORMS
- CHAPTER VII THE EARTHWORMS OF OCEANIC ISLANDS
- CHAPTER VIII MOVEMENT AND MIGRATION AMONG EARTHWORMS
- Climate as Affecting Migration.
- Mountain Ranges and the Migration of Earthworms.
- The Ocean As a Barrier To Migration.
- Facilities of Migration.
- CHAPTER IX THE GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION OF EARTHWORMS
- LIST OF LITERATURE REFERRING TO EARTHWORMS
- INDEX
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