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Fm afraid there is no escape for us: we shall have to give to 

 civilization upon this earth some new worlds. 



Places with white frogs in them. 



Upon several occasions we have had data of unknown things that 

 have fallen from somewhere. But something not to be overlooked 

 is that if living things have landed alive upon this earth in spite 

 of all we think we know of the accelerative velocity of falling bodies 

 and have propagated why the exotic becomes the indigenous, 

 or from the strangest of places we'd expect the familiar. Or if 

 hosts of living frogs have come here from somewhere else every 

 living thing upon this earth may, ancestrally, have come from 

 somewhere else. 



I find that I have another note upon a specific hurricane: 



Annals and Mag. of Nat. Hist., 1-3-185: 



After one of the greatest hurricanes in the history of Ireland, 

 some fish were found "as far as 15 yards from the edge of a lake." 



Have another: this is a good one for the exclusionists: 



Fall of fish in Paris: said that a neighboring pond had been 

 blown dry. (Living Age, 52-186.) Date not given, but I have 

 seen it recorded somewhere else. 



The best known fall of fishes from the sky is that which occurred 

 at Mountain Ash, in the Valley of Abedare, Glamorganshire, Feb. 

 n, 1859. 



The Editor of the Zoologist, 2-677, having published a report of 

 a fall of fishes, writes: "I am continually receiving similar ac- 

 counts of frogs and fishes." But, in all the volumes of the Zoolog- 

 ist, I can find only two reports of such falls. There is nothing to 

 conclude other than that hosts of data have been lost because ortho- 

 doxy does not look favorably upon such reports. The Monthly 

 Weather Review records several falls of fishes in the United States; 

 but accounts of these reported occurrences are not findable in other 

 American publications. Nevertheless, the treatment by the Zoolog- 

 ist, of the fall reported from Mountain Ash is fair. First appears, 

 in the issue of 1859-6493, a letter from the Rev. John Griffith, Vicar 

 of Abedare, asserting that the fall had occurred, chiefly upon the 

 property of Mr. Nixon, of Mounta \ Ash. Upon page 6540, Dr. 

 Gray, of the British Museum, br . ling with exclusionism, writes 

 that some of these fishes, which ad been sent to him alive, were 

 "very young minnows." He sa : "On reading the evidence, it 

 seems to me most probably only a practical joke: that one of Mr. 

 Nixon's employees had thrown i pailful of water upon another, 



