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1880 Oct 17

1)

Frank Dissection of Gizzard

(1) Two stones, and a bit of black gritty stuff looking like coal, and the rounded thing, O every seed

(2) Two flat flake like bits one whitish, the other slate (?) & some scraps of cinder

(3) Three stones, two of them 1 millimeter in diameter the other smaller; also a lump of cinder (?)

Good sized bits of leaf in the gizzards

In the intestine stones also found: and bits of tile not round (-specimens in watch glass with a bit of red blotting paper)

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Oct 18 [1880]

2)

Dissection gizzard

The first two I cut the gizzard free from the intestine before opening the gizzard, so that there could be no regurgitation of stones from the intestine to the gizzard in dissecting. In one of these I noticed casually that the matter in the pharynx was free from stones; but I did not make this out with absolute certainty.

(4) In one of these the gizzard and pharynx together contained two large stones one of which jumped away out of the forceps — watch glass i

(5) The other contained 4 small stones, a bit of coal, & a rounded gritty hard mar [marl?] looking like cinders but with grains of sand adhering & projecting — watch glass ii

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There are in pot 3; The stones from gizzard are in a little heap by themselves in watch glass 3 Those from intestine in all un-numbered watch glass.

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3)

(6) In another worm I carefully cut open the pharynx first & found only one very small stone in a good deal of pulpy matter. In the gizzard, 7 "stones", one being very minute, & one of some black substance & one minute bit of brick, & a rose thorn

In the whole rest of the intestine were 3 big "stones", (two of which were close to the gizzard) 4 minute O things two of which are certainly bits of coal — The part of the intestine which contained any food was not quite up to the tail, but very nearly so.

In this worm I unfortunately did not cut off the gizzard from the intestine; I am as nearly certain I can be that the stones were all actually in the gizzard.

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Oct 20th

4)

Worms

(7) Gizzard no stones

(8)

(8) Two small stones, a bit of cinder & a bit of tile or brick in gizzard. No stones in the pharynx — Watch glass ii

Edges of brick not at all or very little mould — cinder equally doubtful.