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frogs, besides spawn, had been by him alone imported into 

 the East of England, some of them six years, and all more 

 than a whole year, before Mr. C. Thurnall's discovery of the 

 species in September, 1843, at Foulmire Fen, in Cambridge- 

 shire.* 



The above evidence would appear very con- 

 clusive, so far as evidence of that kind could go, 

 had the publication of Mr. Newton's remarks 

 not elicited a reply from Mr. Thomas Bell, which 

 was published in a succeeding number of the 

 same journal, in which his remarks appeared. 

 Mr. Bell says : 



My father, who was a native of Cambridgeshire, has often 

 described to me, as long ago as I can recollect, the peculiarly 

 loud, and somewhat musical, sound uttered by the frogs of 

 Whaddon and Foulmire, which procured for them the name 

 of " Whaddon Organs." My father was always of opinion 

 that they were of a different species from the common frog, 

 and this opinion of his, formed nearly a century ago, was 

 confirmed by Mr. Thurnall's discovery that the frogs of 

 Foulmire are of the species Rana esculenta. f 



Tlie croak of the Edible Frog, as alluded to 

 already, is much louder and more musical than 

 that of the common species. 



" Let me," says a German writer, " recall our 

 summer nights of Northern Germany. When 

 on the wide plain all life is asleep, and the lone- 

 some disquieting groan of the Moor-frog is all 

 that is heard sounding from afar, like a summons 



* The Zoologist, p. 393. t 16., p. 6565. 



