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that I saw them no more, so in all probability they were gathered to their 

 fathers. They never spawned while I had them, owing I presume to the 

 fact that there was no water for them, and I never knew for certain where 

 they took up their winter quarters ; but I had strong suspicions that a large 

 heap of manure afforded them the warmth and shelter they required. I also 

 turned down at the same time about half-a-dozen green Tree Frogs, Hyla 

 arborea, and they lived for two years to my knowledge, generally frequenting 

 in the summer a tall thick privet-hedge. I have never found Bana esculenta 

 wild in the British Isles. It is a fine handsome frog, and I do not think 

 any objection can be raised to its attempted introduction, as might well be 

 the case with other more injurious species. It can certainly make itself 

 heard, but unless sufficiently close to a house to disturb the repose of the 

 inmates, its croaking, to my mind, is an additional charm to the various 

 sounds to be heard on a warm summer's evening. — Oxley Grabham 

 (Flaxton, York). 



Newts in Denbighshire. — On April 5th, during a short holiday spent 

 in Denbighshire, Mr. T. A. Coward and I came across the Palmated Newt, 

 Lophinus palmatus, in a small pond in some slate-quarries on the moors near 

 Nantglyn. In spite of a careful search, we found only one mature example, a 

 male ; but we captured several immature specimens li in. in length, which 

 still retained their tufted branchiae. These were, presumably, individuals 

 born late in the summer of 1895 which had been unable to complete their 

 metamorphosis before the approach of winter. On the 6th we found the 

 two commoner species (Triton cristatus and Lophinus punctatus) in a pond 

 near Trefuant station. — Charles Oldham (Romiley). 



Palmated Newt in Radnorshire and Breconshire. — During a few 

 days' stay in the Elan Valley, near Rhayader, in April, I found the 

 Palmated Newt frequenting various ponds and water-holes in that district. — 

 J. Steele Elliott (Dixon's Green, Dudley). 



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Linnean Society of London. 



March 5th, 1896. — Mr. W. Percy Sladen, Vice-President, in the 

 chair. 



Mr. Ivor Richards was admitted, and Mr. S. H. Bickham was elected 

 a Fellow of the Society. 



On behalf of Capt. J. Marriott, Mr. Harting exhibited an antler of the 

 Burmese Deer, Cervus eldi, and described a singular condition in another 

 example which for eight years had continued to exude a blood*coloured liquid 

 from a puncture on the under surface of the brow-tine. Prof. Stewart, to 



