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found the earth in the intestinal canal praesepe cum lapillis commixtum" * (#De Lumbricus terrestris 1829, p. 14) Give the Beaulieu evidence of little stones & the size – bits of brick – look to Indian & French castings – open gizzards of a dozen worms

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The 2 sexes with [……………………………….]

As worms have no jaws. & as the gizzard is lined with a small membrane we may ask whether the little stones & leave, as with gallinaceous birds, to triturate to fragments of vegetable tissues which are swallowed

Claperede says as quoted by Perrier [Archiva] p. 417 that stones not found in same part of intestinal canal, when vegetable debris is very digested.

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