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Sept. 30th [1880]

1)

3 slips of red and common cabbage in both Pots: -

Oct I Pot I 2 greens & no red down into Hole. Pot II 3 green & no red down in — "They even seem suspicious" (5)

Oct 1 square piece of quite chewed fish placed in both Pots

(2) 7th in Pot 2 green cabbage little meat eaten

9th Green alone gnawed slight in both Pots

9th Fresh leaves placed

(1) 11th Pot 1 more than thrice as much green as of (pickling) red C. eaten.

12th In both Pots green all many gnawed

(1) red not at all, but than red less decayed.

12. Red cabbage [soon] to be yellow — less decayed red & fresh green.

13th Pot I fresh green alone gnawed — in Pot. 2 a little of fresh green, most of yellow-red gnawed.

[on verso: Printed invitation to the 1879 Annual Festival in aid of the Funds of the NORTH LONDON, OR UNIVERSITY COLLEGE HOSPITAL]

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Oct 14 continued Pot I all in same stole cut green cabbage smooth Pot 2- yellow-red a good deal gnawed & green rather more cut all smooth & square-

15 Pot 2 much of green & a good deal of 1/2 decayed red- none of red-yellow Pot I a very little green 1/2 decayed red - no yellow-red. Trimmed all pieces.

16 Pot I very much green, yellow & yellowish-red, all 3 kinds very much eaten.

16 pot fresh young leaves of both kinds (17th 8.19) a little green in both gnawed not all yellow I suppose down under earth. 20' in both Pots atoms of green eaten & no red-

1) Green eaten more favourable then Red

2) 21 Pot 2 both very little gnawed green most

22 Pot 2 red alone very little gnawed — in Pot I Green alone very little gnawed.

24th In both Pots especially in I red more gnawed than green & yet red stiffer

25 Pot I red much most gnawed.—

[On verso: Printed 1880 invitation Sir Josiah Mason's Science College...opening Address by Professor Huxley...Birmingham]