A GARDEN DIARY 185 
May 5, 1900 
po events are more gratifying than to find 
oneself taken more seriously by other people 
than by oneself, and I am pleased therefore to 
discover that our palpably artificial little pond 
has been taken possession of by a colony of 
frogs, which must have travelled some distance 
to make its acquaintance, frog-haunted ponds 
or even ditches being by no means abundant 
on these dry hillsides of ours. 
I have never myself met more than one 
species of frog in these islands. Professor Bell, 
however, speaks of another, Rana Scotica, 
which he held to be distinct, but the difference 
seems to be mainly one of size. It is ex- 
tremely difficult to persuade anyone who has 
noticed the multitudes of frogs which swarm in 
Ireland that they were only introduced there 
artificially, and as lately as the beginning of last 
century. Such, nevertheless, is the fact, and 
the date of the event is, moreover, a tolerably 
fixed one. It was a Dr. Gunthers, or Guithers, 
