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is pleasant to remember that it was through the 
energy and perseverance of a woman naturalist, 
Fraulein Marie von Chauvin, that the matter was 
finally cleared up. By continually damping the 
specimens of axolotl kept by her on land, and 
assiduously feeding them, she was able to pre- 
serve two out of five through the gradual process 
of decreasing their gill-tufts, and tail-fins, changing 
their skins, and so forth. Finally to her own and 
everyone’s triumph, the complete amplystoma form 
was assumed, and the transformation was thereby 
accomplished. The world has seen a fair number 
of miracles since it began to run its course, and 
perhaps not the least difficult of those miracles to 
receive with absolute credulity have been some of 
its natural ones! 
