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From the book:
Phosphoresence or, The Emission of Light by Minerals, Plants, and Animals
T.L. PHIPSON 1862
"One summer`s night after a rainy day," says the writer, "I saw the ground sparkling with a whitish phosphoric light whilst sprinkled with warm urine, and I recognized at the same time the presence of numerous small worms. ... The phenomenon was so curious that I took up some of these worms and carried them into the house to examine them by the light of my lamp. I immediately recognized them to be small Lumbrics, about fifteen (not fifty???) millimètres long. Returning again into my garden, with a lantern, I saw at the same place many Lumbrics crawling upon the ground with their usual slow and regular mode of progression. But they showed no light; and when the lantern was put out, their presence could not be recognized. But as soon as they were in their turn sprinkled with warm urine, the phosphorescence of their entire bodies shone forth and illuminated their wriggling movements."
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