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The Journal of a Disappointed Man
·
W. N. P. Barbellion
20
1908
March
10.
Am
working
frantically
so
as
to
keep
up
my
own
work
with
the
daily
business
of
reporting.
Shorthand,
type-writing,
German,
Chemistry
classes,
Electricity
lectures,
Zoology
(including
dissections)
and
field
work.
Am
reading
Mosenthal's
Muscle
and
Nerve.
April
7.
Sectioned
a
leech.
H----
has
lent
me
a
hand
microtome
and
I
have
borrowed
an
old
razor.
My
table
in
the
Attic
is
now
fitted
up
quite
like
a
Laboratory.
I
get
up
every
morning
at
6
a.m.
to
dissect.
Have
worked
at
the
Anatomy
of
Dytiscus,
Lumbricus,
another
Leech,
and
Petromyzon
fluviatilis
all
collected
by
myself.
The
"branchial
basket"
of
Petromyzon
interested
me
vastly.
But
it's
a
brute
to
dissect.[1]
May
1.
Cycled
to
the
Lighthouse
at
the
mouth
of
the
Estuary.
Underneath
some
telegraph
wires,
picked
up
a
Landrail
in
excellent
condition.
The
colour
of
the
wings
is
a
beautiful
warm
chestnut.
While
sweeping
the
sandhills
with
my
field-glasses
in
search
of
Ring
Plover,
which
nest
there
in
the
shingle
beaches,
I
espied
a
Shelduck
(Tadorna)
squatting
on
a
piece
of
level
ground.
On
walking
up
cautiously,
found
it
was
dead--a
Drake
in
splendid
plumage
and
quite
fresh
and
uninjured.
Put
him
in
my
poacher's
pocket,
alongside
of
the
Landrail.
My
coat
looked
rather
bulgy,
for
a
Shelduck
is
nearly
as
big
as
a
Goose.
Heard
a
Grasshopper
Warbler--a
rare
bird
in
North
----.
Later,
after
much
patient
watching,
saw
the
bird
in
a
bramble
bush,
creeping
about
like
a
mouse.
On
the
sea-shore
picked
up
a
number
of
Sea
Mice
(Aphrodite)
and
bottled
them
in
my
jar
of
70
per
cent.,
as
they
will
come
in
useful
for
dissection.
Also
found
the
cranium
of
a
Scyllium,
which
I
will
describe
later
on.
Marker
Marker
Fine marker
White-out
Fine white-out
Circle
Paint
Unmarker
Hand
Scalpel
Dice
Sieve
Purify
Undo
Redo
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