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doubtful situations, he conceives that what is called stone is 
only a block of earth into which the animal had_ entered for 
the purpose of hibernating. 8. Living toads found in tim- 
ber. Cases of this nature, which have been mentioned by 
respectable people, the author ascribes to mere hibernation, 
and that the opening by which the animal entered has been 
unnoticed by the observer. 9. Frogs in stones. All the 
accounts of this nature are supposed to have passed from 
hand to hand without authority, or that frogs may have fal- 
len into certain holes where they have found moisture enough 
to support life. 
M. Blainville, after commending the spirit in which the 
memoir of M. Vallot is written, stated his belief that the au- 
thor had not satisfactorily accounted for the numerous pre- 
cise relations which have been made of events of this nature, 
such as engravings representing the animal in the stone which 
enclosed it. M. Blainville, declaring that he had no opinion 
of his own relative to the reality of the phenomenon, ac- 
knowledged that he could conceive the possibility of it. 
M. Edwards, after bringing into view his researches on 
the same subject, stated that M. Colladon had spoken to him 
of a toad found in a stone, of which he was an eye witness. 
Ferussac’s Bulletin, Jan. 1827. 
Note. As numerous occurrences of this nature have been 
related in our journals and newspapers, and as the facts are 
highly interesting ina physiological point of view, it would 
be rendering areal service to truth and science, if some per- 
son qualified to make a just estimate of probabilities, would 
embody ina single essay in this Journal, the facts most wor- 
thy of reliance in relation to the existence of living animals in 
situations so confined as to prevent locomotion, and to which 
atmospheric air can scarcely find access. 
- 4 ic Fax and pericardium, divided the aorta and pulmonary ar- 
tery, oeeies into the latter distilled water, until all the 
blood 7 id been washed out from the lungs, and the water re- 
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