British Earthworms

Abstract

I WRITE to suggest—in connection with the recent letters in NATURE upon this subject—that some one give a thoroughly trustworthy list of British earthworms, with the memoirs in which the species were originally described, and the chief characteristics of each. Dr. Benham would be doing very useful and acceptable work if he were to accomplish this. From what I understand everybody has been making mistakes, and the whole matter is in the utmost confusion. It is very necessary that such a classification should exist, if only for the benefit of those who are working on the earthworm more from a comparative anatomist's than from a specialist's point of view.