RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. [Worm notes on digestion]. CUL-DAR65.116. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 8.2021. RN1
NOTE: See record in the Darwin Online manuscript catalogue, enter its Identifier here. Reproduced with permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library and William Huxley Darwin.
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(Argue under Digestion – They endlessly swallow vast numbers of glass beads or bits of broken glass & bits of tile on purpose – for as have been known sense of taste& then give summary of numbers of objects in gizzard but very often also in intestine)
Rose-thorn - bits of glass – flint often stones & bits of brick often angular & rough.
& rough bits of cinders
All this have been covered over in Ch IV
Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
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