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In the course of conversation, reference was made to 

 some experiments lately carried on in America by a German lady, 

 with a view to determine whether the axolotl (one of the family 

 of reptilia, found in Mexico, some fine specimens of which, 

 both ordinary and albino, may be seen in the Brighton 

 Aquarium) was or was not merely a larval form of some other 

 species (probably the amblystoma). 



Mr. WoNFOR remarked that similar experiments had been 

 tried in Brighton by ^liss Crane, and might have resulted 

 in a prioi- discovery by that lady had there been the means 

 at the Brighton Aquarium of keeping the axolotls in water of a 

 sufficiently high temperature. 



The conversation eventually merged in the consideration of 

 another form of life, namely, the fertilization of plants, 

 respecting which Dr. CoRFE made some observations, and that 

 gentleman ultimately promised to read a paper on the subject. 



