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Toadall Sound: What's in a name?

As a child (before I had ever driven a car) I somehow became mixed up in a few twisted minds with Mr. Toad (of Toad Hall) in the English children's story Wind in the Willows. Several years ago my former next door neighbor nature illustrator Karen Phillipps, then working on mammals of Hong Kong, was inspired by this to draw for me a tree frog playing a qin. She has graciously allowed me to use this as my logo.

The Chinese version of "Toadall", pronounced "chan gong", literally means Toad Hall; this is a poetic name for the moon.

And that is the total story.

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