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On THE NATURALIZATION oF THE EpisiE FRoe (Rana esculenta) 1x 
Norrorx.—In 1859 I announced in ‘ The Zoologist’ (1st ser. 6538—6540) 
the discovery in 1853, by my brother Mr. Edward Newton and myself, of 
a colony of Edible Frogs in Norfolk, and at the same time I was satis- 
factorily able to account for its existence. The colony was afterwards sought 
for by Mr. Southwell, but in vain; and nothing had been heard for many 
years of the colonists or their descendants. It was therefore with great 
pleasure that on the 30th of May last, when I happened to arrive at a small 
station on the Thetford and Watton Railway, my ears were greeted by some 
well-remembered notes, which I found to proceed from a little pond only a 
few yards off, and I soon gained a sight of some of the performers. I was 
fortunate in being in Lord Walsingham’s company at the time, and he, 
entering at once into the interest of the matter, contrived after many 
unsuccessful attempts to bring to land a single example of the species, 
which is now in the Norwich Museum. On enquiring of a man who came 
from a house close by, he said that he had known these noisy Frogs so long 
as he had lived there—more than a dozen years, and by his means other 
examples were soon after sent to Mr. Southwell at Norwich. On reference 
to my former note, it will be seen that this species has thus made good its 
existence in Norfolk for at least. thirty-four years, and I cannot doubt that 
the last colony I found is one of the results of Mr. Berney’s original 
importations, as that gentleman has informed me that he has not introduced 
any more in the meanwhile, and I know of no one else who is likely to have 
done so. From Lord Walsingham I have since learnt that he has ascer- 
tained that the species is pretty generally diffused in a south-westerly 
direction from the place where we found it, and therefore its naturalization 
in the county seems to be accomplished——Atrrep Nuwron (Magdalene 
College, Cambridge). 
PROCEEDINGS OF SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES. 
Linnean Society oF Lonpon. 
December 21, 1876.—Prof. Attman, President, in the chair. 
Mr. Thomas Christy (64, Claverton Street, S.W.) and Mr. Robert Drane 
(Queen Street, Cardiff) were balloted for and duly elected Fellows of the 
Society. 
The Butterflies of Malacca formed the subject of a paper by Mr. 
A. G. Butler, of the British Museum. A number of new species were 
described, and a tabular view of the geographical relations given. The 
author states that of 258 species now registered from Malacca, 36 are 
endemic ; of the remainder 65 also belong to Assam or Nepal, 38 to Moul- 
mein, 33 to Ceylon, 94 to Penang, 46 to Singapore, 112 to Borneo, 41 to 
