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[text excised] rings, each furnished with small minute bristles. The muscular

[text excised] is much developed   powerful, as will  presently be shown & we shall hereafter have evidence of

[text excised] wer. Worms can crawl backwards as well as forwards, &

[text excised]d of their affixed tails to can retreat with extraordinary  rapidity into their burrows. with which they retire into them [text excised] has been noticed mentioned. The mouth is situated [text excised] the anterior end of the body; it is destitute of jaws, [text excised] is provided with a little projection of lobe or lip (as it has [text excised]ariously called) which is used for prehension of food. [text excised] Beneath the mouth there is a strong pharynx   shown in the accompanying diagram. (Fig I) [text excised] to be  pushed forwards when the animal eats, & which, according to Perrier, [text excised] believes the corresponds as Perrier believes with the  protrudable trunk or proboscis of other Annelids. The pharynx leads into the

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or the common earth-worm is enlarged into [text excised]

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Lantern [3 words illeg] red & on green glass — colour as before — no effect —hardly bright the moonlight—

Single not bright candle — but ocassion, peculiar [words illeg] into burrows— Even [words illeg].—

did not [words illeg]any effect much more [illeg].— But effect of by light. Returned from 10 to 15' (? Now there no doubt that [words illeg] for day)—

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Bulls-eye  [words illeg] dashed into their burrows, & only occassionally were not affected [words illeg]

It is clear [words illeg] of light in [words illeg]—

Ant. extremity of body. Hoffmeister, [words illeg].— But why [text excised] [words illeg].—