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have arrived at after careful observation. They proved much 

 more interesting pets than I had expected, and are easily 

 supplied with food by any one having a garden where worms 

 can be obtained. I never kept in captivity so interesting a 

 Batrachian as " Tu-wheet," or one that seemed more contented 

 and happy although deprived of freedom. He had latterly 

 to share his tin with other frogs that, like the toads, were 

 always attempting to escape, but he seemed quite content in 

 his home, and never tried to get out. It was interesting to 

 find the otlier frogs used the same method as the toads to 

 escape, and succeeded even better than they did in climbing 

 the walls of the tin. These creatures could never have been 

 immured in a large tin box before, yet they discovered for 

 themselves the same method of escape as the toads. I on 

 more than one occasion found several of them, one above the 

 other, with a space between them, ascending the walls of the 

 corner of the tin at the same time. We seldom give credit 

 to such a creature as a frog for any instinct such as I have 

 described, but verily we do not know everything. 



If what I have written gives any one a better opinion of 

 the loathsome toad and the slimy frog, then I will be amply 

 repaid. 



At this meeting Mr Wm. Wilson, Kildrummy, read a 

 paper entitled " Notes on Botanico-Chemical Observations," 

 in which he discussed the varying effects of the same arti- 

 ficial preparations on different plants. He referred to the 

 great difficulty in drawing exact conclusions from observa- 

 tions of the growth of plants under treatment. He stated 

 that " much still remains to be discovered. Thus some 

 reliable information on the best means of bringing forward 

 flowers as well as fruit to proper form in a late season 

 would be of immense advantage, and would tend to en- 

 large the area of the fruit and flower industry of this 

 country." 



At the meeting of Dec. 22, 1909, Miss Lily H. Huie 

 read a paper, illustrated by the lantern, on " Eesearches 

 and Theories on the Cell Nucleus during the Last Decade." 



