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As I was intimately connected with Dr. Kammerer's visit to England in 1923, and as his specimens were unpacked in my laboratory and examined there before being taken to Cambridge, perhaps I may be allowed to make some comments on Dr. Noble's communication to NATURE of August 7. As to the present condition of the Alytes, about which there has been so much controversy, I know nothing. Dr. Przibram's view that the specimen after its return to Vienna was allowed to fade and macerate and that then a clumsy attempt at ‘faked’ restoration was made, appears to me probable. But this specimen was demonstrated to a continuous stream of critical observers for a whole afternoon in the Zoological Laboratory at Cambridge by Dr. Kammerer, who removed it from its case and invited examination under a lens. We all saw the spines; it was these and not the colour which convinced us. Dr. Noble may set his rnind quite at rest as to the former existence of nuptial asperities.
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MACBRIDE, E. Kammerer's Alytes. Nature 118, 264 (1926). https://doi.org/10.1038/118264a0
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