Field notes, v1725
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A.C. Ziegler 1957 Journal taken in vicinity Fresno Islands San Francisco Co, Calif. Oct.31 (cont.) I explained I wanted them for the school. They even provided cans & formalin which they kept on hand for preserving interesting specimens. The owner's son, Chuck ___, apparently took zoology at U.C. and maybe saved some embryos, tissues etc. Apparently someone also saved the pituitary(?) gland since one man supposedly had the job of digging it out of the base(?) of the brain case with his fingers. I got pieces of heart, esophagus, liver, kidney, lung, blood vessels, blubber/skin, [illegible], spleen(?), both ovaries, mammary tissue, both eyes, half the brain. Also got branches with "rabbit-ear" shernless barndales attached from the humps on the leading edge of the phippees and from the skin of throat & chest. Also the foreman cut about a foot to each side of the anus (?) and got me the pelvic bones. Also saw some branches x whitish scars from barndales bitten. Mentis on the edges of lower jaw. I wondered if the humps on the