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Raining toads

Creator
Date
  • 1930/1939
Description
  • Manuscript recounting an encounter with a group of toads. The document describes how the toads possess a bone that allows them to use their hind feet to burrow into the ground in order to get closer to moisture when rain is lacking. The author and the group watched as the animals used ant hills as a buffet to feed themselves. The author comments that it is no wonder that some believe that amphibians rain from the sky because this species emerges with the coming rain and disappears as the sun comes out.
Subject
Work Type
Location
Identifier
  • mssfinley_series01_box02_folder04_73
Repository
Local Collection Name
Is Part Of
  • Series 1: Manuscripts; Box 2, folder 7: Manuscripts: Typescripts, circa 1930s
Institution
Submission Date
  • 06/26/2017
Modified
  • 10/10/2022
Collections

APA

OSU Special Collections & Archives Research Center, Oregon State University. (20 Apr 2025). Raining toads Retrieved from https://oregondigital.org/concern/documents/df71g295j

MLA

OSU Special Collections & Archives Research Center, Oregon State University. "Raining toads" Oregon Digital. 20 Apr 2025. https://oregondigital.org/concern/documents/df71g295j

Chicago

OSU Special Collections & Archives Research Center, Oregon State University. "Raining toads" Oregon Digital. Accessed 2025-04-20. https://oregondigital.org/concern/documents/df71g295j

Wiki

{{cite web | url= https://oregondigital.org/concern/documents/df71g295j | title= Raining toads |author= |accessdate= 2025-04-20 |publisher= }}
Data Sources
Footer Number Term External URI
1 Finley, William L. (William Lovell), 1876-1953 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n84017617
2 Toads http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85135696
3 typescripts http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300028577
4 manuscripts (documents) http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300028569
5 Catlow Valley >> Harney County >> Oregon >> United States https://sws.geonames.org/5718297/
6 Oregon State University. Libraries http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n00020491
7 William L. Finley Papers, 1899-1946 (MSS Finley) http://opaquenamespace.org/ns/localCollectionName/mss_finley
8 Oregon State University http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80017721

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