There was a prolonged discussion in the press, finally brought to an end by Professor J. W. Hopkins (Yale) with the announcement that he had examined the photographs submitted to him and that he considered them a fraud (‘a hoax’) or some trick photography; that the animals depicted were somewhat reminiscent of the Giant Covered-Gilled Salamander (Cryptobranchus japonicus, Sieboldia maxima, Tritomegas Sieboldii or Megalobatrachus Sieboldii), but inaccurately, clumsily and downright amateurishly copied. In this way the matter was scientifically settled for some time to come.
