73

Nov 27 80

[in margin:] Digestion

Celery leaf dragged into hole & quite moist apparently very lately moistened by worms & slightly, but distinctly alkaline with best neutral litmus paper

Nov 30 Celery leaf again wettish & turn litmus paper blue

Celery preferred to all other leaves including cabbage — Ivy, Lime, ampelopis

Dec 2d preferred the parsnip — lime ampelopis & cabbage

Dec 2d Celery (fresh spec) in both pots & cabbage in one pot wet & distinctly alkaline — say common turmeric paper not sufficiently sensitive — must be now neutral Litmus paper

Dec 3d Bit of celery not wet from mouth of burrow — made 2 bits of litmus paper blue, showed it Frank & noticed other paper at same time — he said no doubt.

they dragged in part blackened vein not reddened.

Dec 18th 2 more bits of celery juice of celery (paled leaves) not with best alkaline.

73v

Dec 22d Bit of dragged in Turnip leaf very alkaline does not [illeg] juice of other parts of same leaf — Cabbage in both respects the same