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(Intestinal canal of earth-worm copied from E. Ray Lankester.)

This intestinal canal is a delicate object & must be engraved lightly, with a little shading – it is almost cylindrical.

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Fig 1

[Parts of the worm]

not to be copied

Blotter to be as close &c no writing

Quart: Journ. of Mic. Sc. vol. iv. N.S. pl 1

(see over)

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Fig 1

[annotated drawing]

This medial line to be erased after was put in the art in drawing 

Sometimes too hard [illeg] of the 6 glands

[illeg] the organ looking too much [illeg]

[illeg] as I have what you have copied was a [2 words illeg] in drawing. 

[Earthworms, p. 18 n: "Diagram of the alimentary canal of an earthworm (Lumbricus), copied from Ray Lankester in 'Quart. Journ. of Microscop. Soc.' vol. xv. N.S. pl. vii."]