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an indiscreet youth whom we found rambling about the grass, alive. 
By the time these were obtained our offensive operations had so 
be-muddied the pool and disturbed the growth of the water-weeds, 
that the rest of the colony sought safety in its turbid depths, and 
we could discover no more. We therefore retired with our spoils : 
the deceased were decently embalmed, and are now in the Norfolk 
and Norwich Museum. Our prisoner survived the journey home 
and lingered for three months in a foot-tub, usually re-ting on a 
floating island of cork, from which he would leap into the water 
whenever a fly was thrown for him on to its surface, and seizing it 
swim back to his station, when he disposed of it in about two 
gulps, though, indeed, if it happened to be a large blue bottle a 
faint buzzing might be heard for some seconds after it had dis- 
appeared from the light of da)’'. 
“ I lost no time in communicating the discovery we had made to 
Mr. J. II. Gurney, who in reply informed me that some years before 
Mr. George Berney had imported a great many animals of this 
species alive, and had liberated them in this country. Here the 
matter rested until a few days ago, when I received from the gentle- 
man last named an account of his proceedings, and, having his 
permission to do so, I extract some portions of his letter written 
from Morton Hall, Norwich, March 25, 1859, which, I think, will 
be found interesting. Mr. Berney says : — ‘ I went to Paris in 1837 ; 
some letters which I wrote from that place, and which now lie 
before me, fix the date with certainty: I brought home two hundred 
edible frogs and a great quantity of spawn. These were deposited 
in the ditches in the meadows at Morton, in some ponds at Hocker- 
ing, and some were placed in the fens at Foulden, near Stoke Ferry. 
“ ‘ They did not like the meadows and left them for ponds. I 
found some in a pond at the top of lloningham Heights, near the 
old telegraph. I have measured the distance on a map, three chains 
to an inch, this morning, and find it to be in a straight line 1| mile 
and forty yards. In the whole distance there is not one drop of 
water, not a puddle as big as a hand-bason, to be found between the 
meadows where they were placed and the pond in which I saw and 
heard them. It is impossible to mistake their cry or the two bladders 
that stick out of their heads when they cry. 
‘“In 1841 I imported another lot from Brussels. In 1842 I 
brought over from St. Omer thirteen hundred in large hampers made 
